Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Print: step up the fight!

Socialist Viewpoint no. 13, July 1986 · p 9 · 255 words

struggle indeed the percentage of sacked printers involved in picketing exceeds that of the striking miners), and its preparedness to challenge the various attempts to limit the dispute, the left in SOGAT and the NGA has

Sell-out deal rejected,

THE FIGHT!

METHODIST

CENTRAL HALL

SUNDAY SERVICES

CALICOPM that which considerable developed and strengthened during their own the fight.

serious print union tactical error of failing to spread the

News International picked

- as another.

that from the influence

Star coherent alternative to

- these policies within the two unions.

For the CP/Morning

"Scargillite"

with the largely bureaucratic methods the NUJ).

policies on this or that question,

SOGAT mass meeting in Central Hall during the ballot campaign

Many militants — including quite

FoCs - have begun to recognise and admit the fight to

Fleet

Street, and allowing print jobs to be after a forum, off by one employer

But the political weakness of these same forces — related to the political of the among them

Communist Party and the Morning any

- is in their inability consistently to challenge or develop a wretched their bureaucratic leaders. Even now they know what must be done, they have statement hardly begun to organise the fight for

Star, this approach is no accident: it flows from their long-standing opportunist deals right wing which establishment gave the CP influential position in the print unions (and now increasingly in

This means that while occasionally pursuing different

CP militants have always pulled back

Socialist Viewpoint No. 13 July 1986 p7 from the

← Botha's show of weakness · Rail: spread the action! →

Something wrong on this page?