Up against the laws: Burnsall strikers FIRST SPAIN, then Germany, now France: all over Europe workers have been taking industrial action that would flout the vicious anti-union laws imposed by the British Tory government.
The French lorry drivers' action, blocking main roads, should remind us of the trial of strength that enabled Thatcher to impose those laws.
In Britain during the 1984 miners' strike, TUC leaders sat back and watched as police blockaded whole mining villages stopped cars on motorways on the slightest suspicion that they might have been carrying NUM pickets. They watched the NUM sequestered, they watched pickets beaten, and they did nothing.
Then the same TUC leaders watched as the printworkers and P&O seafarers were picked off, isolated and defeated. Ever since that time DuppoRT ATUMovement Trade Union Committee. - and to workers in struggle. BETHERE! the trade union leadership has been on the retreat, and the membership under fire.
Workers, like the women at Burnsall's in Smethwick, who stand up and strike for their rights now face a battery of anti-union laws that are among the most repressive in the world, and 'new realist union leaderships determined to do nothing to challenge them.
The only concerted campaign to break and destroy this legislation is the Unshackle the Unions campaign, organised by the Socialist Its conference in London on July 18-19 will discuss the fightback against the new manage ment offensive. It will be addressed by Arthur Scargill, and by Tony Benn, and is sponsored by leaders of the Bakers' union, the Furniture union and a host of trade union bodies. Itoffers the only immediate hope of organised support EXPLOITED LoNG! G ATU THE OCIALIST MOVEMENT Trade Union Committee Second Conference 1992 18-19 July Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London Registration $10 waged/$3 unwaged
Over 500 attended Leeds Labour Left Conference Home News the labour movement is to the right. strengthening the weight of already dominant new realism. mass campaigns and the movements of the oppressed. inside the unions. IN THE WAKE of Labour's election defeat, the need for a stepped up co-ordination of the left has become increasingly obvious. As John Smith is elected Labour leader, the push in the entire leadership of Smith as party leader wil champion the Maastricht accords, and put his weight behind a review of Labour's inks with the unions. With the merger of the AEU and EETPU, the Eric Hammond leadership is back in the TÚC Socialist Outlook has argued for a long time that what is needed is a fighting left co-ordination which stretches across the labour movement, the It involves buiding unity between socialists inside and outside of the Labour Party; and in particular strengthening the organisation of the left As a first step towards to building fighting left unity Socialist Outlook has given strong support to the Socialist Movement. Parts of the Socialist Movement have been very effective, in particular the Socialist Movement
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