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public workers and unemployed youth were a reminder to delegates that passing resolutions is not enough.
The TUC campaign for social and economic advance is now one year old. In that time unemployment has risen to 2 million. The aim of the campaign is to force the government to change course and to implement alternative policies.
unemployment radical policies are needed to save jobs. Unfortunately, all that the TUC nas done is to re-arrm us exisung strategy of putting pressure on the governme.
Despite the massive increase in unemployment, the size and strength of the TUC continues to grow. year a record 12 million workers are affiliated. The fight to save jobs starts in the factories where the unions are strongest.
That's why the lobby was so imsteelworkers from JUltalll.
Llanwern challenged delegates from tue steer amons who had negotiated the loss of their jobs. timised civil servant brought a large contingent from the Brixton dole office — recent scene of mass picketing.
Organise Both the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party mobilised their supporters, Work Campaign lobbied support for march to the lorv ference on 10 October. a united aim that the TUC must and lead the fight to save jobs.
At a packed fringe meeting, Stuart MacLennan, a conference from the civil servants' CPSA, spoke of how the Tories are trying to use unemployment to break the organised working class. Ray Davis, a steelworker Llanwern, why the TUC had not supported the Welsh TUC's attempts to organise strike action in defence of steel and mining jobs. Michael Boulter, convenor of Hackney. maximum unity of those opposing Unemployment is the major issue facing the unions. The trade union leadership want to wait for the next Labour unemployment. By then hundreds of thousands more will have lost their jobs.
must start now. The enemy is the Tories - and when they come to Brighton they I have a warm reception from the mass lobby on unemployment.
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. BOC, called for launched 'economic and vance' une coveramcat must change pressurising the Tories has gọt the TUC precisely nowhere in to solve that time.
Even the perennial friend of the labour oureaucrals. week to comment on what a pathetic the TUC currently has that of mass action and mass SUBSCRIBE NOW $6.50 $12.50 Airmail £18.00 lo to Socialist Challo on Stract, London N AS THIS week's TUC has unfolded it has become obvious that Len Murray and the union tops are absolutely devoid of ideas ab sut how to fight the Tories.
Faced with the most vicious anti-working class government since the war, with unemployment in real terms at more than 2½ million, Len Murray increasingly resembles a frightened rabbit hypnotised by the Tory cobra.
the membership, figures and a man like Murray, who gol job through a meeting working in a Congress House. Oched is campaign for BUT THAT TIVE DOES EXIST. It was call disl spelled out last week by two under the slogan of Labour MPs. policy Ogmore, pointed with a huge Tory majority in parlament Daily Mirror, the Tories on bred on n Tories was moved last TUC to call a general strike against Tory policies. and inept leadership Dennis that the That an alternative exists, of the Polish workers pointed the way to fighting the Tories in this country. Powell and Skinner resiste man vital the lorie anti-working mass brought down.
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