bureaucracy. "Left" talking that - in order to cling on to the With all too little regroupment of of its austerity programme. discredited Francois of retirement from the the predicted inal copy date for this issue October 21, 198| Printed by DOT Press (TU). Oxford Published by Socialist Viewpoint BCM Box 3956, London WCIN 3XX No. 14. November 1986. 70p ... seers lobby TUC after ballot .:::= Andrew Wiard (Report) E::8-3:64
among the punters. Meanwhile, despite all of the obstacles, setbacks and betrayals since 1979, there are definite signs of a revival of working class militancy and self-confidence. In an astounding show of tenacity the printworkers have voted more strongly a second time to reject Rupert Murdoch's buy-off at News International. The miners have moved back into action with strikes and overtime bans. Sealink workers on the 20th anniversary of the 1966 seamen's strike showed the folly of Labour's plans to impose strike ballots by their rapid unofficial
And health workers continue to fight back against cuts, closures, privatisation and
This extended issue of Socialist Viewpoint also carries background articles on the 1956 events in Hungary which gave concrete form to the Trotskyist call for political revolution
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