IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

CHIX WORKERS WILL WIN!

Socialist Challenge No. 135, 21 February 1980 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 295 words

The scan: sc-n135-feb-21-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 3-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 5 of the scan

MECCANO trade unionists. factory have been on strike for union recognition for several months.

been slow off the mark in organising support for the pickets.

struggles was union solidarity. Slough on Wednesday 13 February. The mainly Asian women workers at the The dispute has won mass support from the Asian community of Slough, but the union concerned, the General and Municipal Werkers' Union, has Jerry McMullen, GMWU regional officer, told pickets how management had been trying to farm out their distribution to other factories. These attempts had been stopped by flying pickets and solidarity action from fellow A group of workers from the Meccano factory in Liverpool attended the picket. The Meccano factory is presently under occupation by the workforce which is determined to hold off management's plans for closure. Frank Bloor, GMWU convenor at Meccano, told the pickets that the key to victory in both movement sectors.

Fighting

Whether the Tory and kicked out.

The Socialist Challenge 21 February 1980 call for an all-out onslaught against the Tories. This is how the rank and file leadership of the working class should motivate the spreading of the steel strike to other nuts and bolts are finished products or raw steel does not matter. What does matter is that government which the steelworkers are fighting is defeated logical outcome extension of the steel strike to othe sectors of workers is a general strike The steelworkers should take the lead in raising precisely this call.

page 6 of the scan

SY CORMAC YOU ARE, OF COURSE, ENTITLED TO YOUR DISGUSTING VIEWS ABOUT YOUR SO-CALLED RIGHTS BUT DON'T FORGET THAT MANY, MANY FINE WOMEN VEHEMENTLY S DIGAGREE WITH YOU!

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, SARAH, BUT I'M BEGINNING TO FIND THESE ANTI-ABORTION MARCHES A BIT OF A BORE!

← Steel craft union negotiations It'stime the TUC thought about it — they can't go on selling jobs foreverThe nuts and bolts of struggle →

Something wrong on this page?