IMGpapers 1980–83

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

TUC lobby for jobs

Socialist Challenge No. 152, 19 June 1980 · p. 16 of the scan · 250 words

The scan: sc-n152-jun-19-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 16 of the scan

more rights and freedoms than can be assured by even the best bourgeois democracy.' Uhl has consistently refused to 9125( £18.00 organisation by threats of the dole. socrest Ltd: tor Socialist Challene; 32819 Upper St, London N1. Printed try East End (offset) Ltd. PO, Box 82, London E2, JACK Collins, president of the Kent area of the National Union of Mineworkers, has added his name to an appeal for a mass lobby of this year's TUC against unemployment. British Oxygen workers at the Hackney depot also recently endorsed the appeal.

Put it forward in your labour movement organisation, and inform Socialist Challenge! This is the text of the appeal:

"This Tory government is intent on destroying workers' standards of living and their organisations, the trade unions. Their main weapon is the creation of mass unemployment in order to increase profits through squeezing more production out of a reduced workforce; in order to "persuade" workers to take cuts in pay rather than fight for a decent standard of living; in order to weaken and smash union "disciplining" those who want to fight back with "The whole labour movement, the unions and the Labour Party, must unite against this threat and take united action now.

'As a first step in such a campaign this branch/ward agrees to sponsor a call, for a mass lobby of this year's TUC Congress in Brighton around these demands: «No, to Unemployment - For a 35 Hour Week Now. *Fight' to Kick Out the Tories?

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