IMGpapers 1980–83

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

DOCKS

· Socialist Challenge No. 165, 25 September 1980 · p. 16 of the scan · 253 words

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page 16 of the scan

Khomeini's present attack on the Kurds was called off and national granted to them and the Arabs of Khuzestan.

The counter-revolution in Iran will be looking to this invasion as an opportunity for further coup attempts and the chance to forment civil war. The allies that need to be won to revolution are the Arabs and Kurds.

It is on this basis that we demand 'Hands off Iran'.

docks the first round. the workers will and the bosses"

other firms the accept IT was a straight fight. The dockers versus the Liverpool and national employers. The result: knock-out victory for the dockers in The docks employers were trying to push through Tory policies On any one day in ports around the country thousands of dockers have no work. Under the 1972 JonesAldington agreement they remain on the register with full fall-back pay of £78.50. Hardly Thatcher or Joseph's dream - of ruthlessly cutting their version of surplus and overpaid"

In refusing to allow the agreement to be broken, the Liverpool dockers, with strong national backing, would not accept responsibility for the lack of work caused by the slump. The 178 dockers employed by two bankrupt companies will now be given jobs with A national organisation, firmly under the control of the rank and file, was able to brush aside the dire warnings from the media of a national disaster if there was a strike, and to reject the carrot of bigger redundancy payments that TGWU officials would have been happy to

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