African region and jeopari the extensive interests of so imperialism in the area.
the Rhodesian tion had always been the wite stalking horse right wing in the Tory and substantial progress d have to be made to avoid a party split over the TO SCLOIs te elections were held under atic Front forces. Despite per cent of black voters d for the parties which had the war of liberation;
and ZANU. The Tories, * dismayed by the result, ted to abide by it; confident any excesses on the part of Mugabe government would ealt with in extremis by the -honoured device of coup invasion.
eland The apparent success of the colonialisation babwe has emboldened the es considerably in respect of and. Next month the Tories ¿ unveil their as for Britain's last and oldest However very little prothe beet ies in tackling the undimied resistance of the nationpopulation of the north of But while the policy, in slavish alliance with the White House, is under strain the fundamental obstacle facing the Tories in restoring the fortunes of British capital is the rock on which Heath smashed; the huge working class of Britain and the strength of its organisations. Wales The Tories strategy to deal with this situation was carefully prepared before the last General Election in Sir Keith Joseph's Centre for Policy Studies.
The Centre did not believe that the new Tory government could survive a headiong collision with powerful unions such mineworkers engineers. This was confirmed by the findings of the 'Ridley Report, a confidential arawn up shadow minister which specified those unions which could be confronted (like the steel workers) and those walch snowd be lett alone (like the miners and the Waterworkers).
In South Wales, from steel, rail, mines and docks plainca umnica jobs. Action was only averted by a last minute intervention by the British TUC aimed at postponing and then dumping the indefinite strike action planned from file organisation workers since the end of the strike shows that they were not defeated despite the sell-out of their national leadership:
Mass action other attacks class. The women and demonstration TUC against the Corrie Bill has repulsed the first wave of attacks on the rights of women.
Likewise the fought back harassment in Bristol scored a stinging police in an example which will not be lost on black communities all over Britain.
Strike Tories to press attacks on the working class, on the one hand, and the capacity of tne working oppressed to resist on the other are the two main factors which gIve rise to the global confrontation between the classes in the next period.
'help strengthen tendencies in the working class struggle which help to produce a united, centralised and nationa response fo the Tories' attacks. That is why it is important to raise the necessity of a general strike to remove the government. his slogan is important as framework strategy in the year to come class makes it possible to remove the Tories strike which would unite the Tory foreign The removal of the Tories means that this power can be used to remove the main agency of the attacks on the working class, not merely to secure partial concessions. Gains socialists raise next year of the ment, after • stalemate, down of the attacks on the working class, Ine acaanne for une closure the steel plants in South Wales the for next September, ning of the new round of wage so-called claims will mark the resumption of the next round of the battle a junior against the Tories.
If the Tories office for their full term of five years it will be seen as a defeat for the working class.
workers decause the price that will be paid, defeat for the save for the Tories staying in power will be the surrender of some of the chief economic, ing class since the Second World War.
among steel has defeated on the working mobilisation of the historic called by the youth who against police defeat on their local The determination of the their class and the possibility of UK The job of socialists will be to all those for working class DENMARK The strength of the working through a general BELGIUM of the class.
The general strike slogan is orientation which lightly. But the this year of will not see a scaling but their stepping up of support were in defence and 'lav the beginmajor Western spends more on continue in so broke.
More than that it will be a working social and
1,522,921. One in sixteen of the working population unemployed. That's the official unemployment figure revealed this week. represents an increase of 45,000 in one month at a time of year when unemployment should be going down. And this figure conceals an estimated 400,000 not registered as unemployed. At the time, notified have gone down by 12,000 to a paltry 168,000.
Particularly badly hit are women and school leavers. with thousands of school leavers coming onto the "labour market', real unemployment will be approaching 2½ million. It is time that the whole labour movement seriously stock, and began to combat the terrible resignation and apathy which exists on this issue.
This vacancies This summer, LOOK In part this ...1 The duiswer must workers.
whole logic of the Tory monetarist offensive can be broken by the power of the trade unions. But of course wages militancy alone is no to the threat posed by unemployment. On no issue has the betrayal of the trade union leaderships been so great.
Time after time the trade union bureaucracy has been prepared trade jobs for increases in wages. Indeed, this is exactly what Bill Sirs and the ISTC leadership did at the end of the steel strike. Time after time, trade union leaders have come to accept job loss as 'inevitable'.
The fight against unemployment begin the employed So long as workers in employment are forced to work long hours of overtime to earn a living wage, unemployment will continue to rise. The only way to combat this is to the police of work-sharing with no loss of pay.
Many unions now have a policy
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