Implications But the crucial measures of the Act are limiting workers' rights disputes. restricting the closed Many types of sympathetic and 'secondary' action will become illegal. The implications of the notorious limitation of pickets to six have become all too obvious during the dispute at Brixton dole office.
For all these reasons it is imperative that the trade union and labour movement carry through a policy of complete non-cooperation with the Act.
But AUEW acceptance of Tory money for ballots so pernicious? Isn't this a very minor aspect of the Act?
answer to concerns the whole move away branch voting towards postal ballots, which occurred in the AUEW while Socialist Challenge 3 September 1980 Page 10 this Hugh March Against Missiles Eve of Labour Party conference Sunday 28 September Blackpool Assemble: 10.45am War Memorial, Nr Butlins Hotel. March to Rally 1.30pm South Pier. Sponsors Include: Manchester Against Missiles, Bob Wright AUEW Assistant Gen. Secretary, Ken Slater AUEW District Sec. Accrington, Manchester North AUEW District C'ttee, Colin Barnett NWTUC Sec., Frank Allaun MP, Labour Action for Peace, Bob Walter NW CND Sec., EP Thompson. Lobby the AUEW delegation to call for La vote against the missiles 2.00pm AUEW offices, Station Road, Blackpool. ADWEST in Reading, where police have repeatedly clashed with Socialist changing. time the and abroad.
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Challenge is weeks reluctance producing new-look paper which will defunct have even better coverage however, struggle for don's socialism both in Britain to fight back. introductory subscription: 10 issues for Send name and ad- Tel Ors dress with cheque or PO ty/Labour Len Challenge PO Box 50, London Ni 2Xp In the Ribble area neither tion the war industrie Aerospace (Tornadoes), British Fuels Limited warheads) and Royal Ordnance Factory or the locomotive plant at GEC could absorb the thousands of engineers, fitters, tvpists and technicians who wil be thrown onto the unemployment heap if the redundancies gently Moreover there exists in work in the industries of death. Unlike the textiles industry, the LVL and Sed. membership demoralized and seem willing The main obstacle to the fightback is (as usual) the local Communist leadership around able Brindle and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (Preston branch) who are determined to struck lead the membership down the Strategy The role of the local Labour MP Stan Thorne will be that of guiding the struggle along the reformist path to defeat, secure in the knowledge that he has only two years left betore retirement Despite the dominance of the CP left in the debate many people are suspicious of their concerning import controls and are preparing for a fightback. But they are constrained by a lack of a coherent If the revolutionary left was to overcome the sectarianism and weakness in numbers which bedevils it then a savage blow could well be the Thatcher govertment nere
nation of Leon Trotsky From The Revolution , 1936 which the bureaucracy preparing against itself will not be social, like the
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