British business over £100m each day.
has LLOW Liverpool doikers could find other jobs. Liverpool is typical of most major industrial areas - the Tories want to close it down.
But now Liverpool's dockers have decided to fight for their right to work. This is the biggest challenge to Thatcher's policies yet.
The bosses are scared. The Docks Labour Board has asked the Liverpool employers to find the dockers alternative jobs.
The employers want to buy their jobs through increased redundancy terms. Liverpool's dockers have rejected this. Instead they are preparing for all-out action.
If the strike takes place it will show every worker faced with redundancy how to fight -by militant, national, industrial action.
All over the country thousands of workers face the sack. A victory on the docks will Prior's law shouldn't stop the pickets. The reached two steel strike showed that effective picketing is million. and there is little chance that the needed to win, and that means closing down manufacturing industry.
Fords import most of their components -they should be closed down. All food imports should "be stopped.
Dockers have always been the first to support other strikers. In Liverpoo hey the National willing to take strike action to help Solidarity movement will make sure they win The Tory press has already started to attack the dockers. Only last week the same hack writers were applauding the actions of Polish dockers in toppling the Gierek regime. If the strike starts, the employers and their friends In the Tory government everything to make sure their side wins. We have to do the same. A victory for the dockers will be a victory for the right to work.
THElong expected military coup in turkey ha occurred. Over the past lew weeks poinica murders have rocketed, Party government had been incapable of solv ing.
an even handed approach. All the labour 'eft and right unions have been banned. the Confederation of Prosressive the organised workers broken, will generals are no friends of the workers.
underlining the chronic political crisis which Demirers Justice The army has tried to give the impression o the leading politicians have been arrested, and political ac Owed with the trade unions - both But the main target 1s the biggest union Workers Unions (DiSK), The generais are just putting a temporary muzde on the Grey Wolves so that movement can be No-one should have any Illusions the * Turkey Under the Generals - see page 'COVERAGE of Poland has been brilliant'; writes Mike Holbrook this week with an £8 donation to the Fund Drive. If you agree and wish to see Socialist Challenge continue to give full coverage to important workers' struggles in the rest of the world then why not send a donation Next week we'll be producing the first issue of the new look Socialist Challenge. To celebrate the event — and to raise some funds — there will be a mammoth social in London on Saturday 2t September at Caxton House (for details see page Outside London, we hope that readers will make a massive effort to send in donations so that we can announce a really big total next week to help give the new look paper a good financial Our thanks this week to:
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