IMGpapers 1980–83

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

The day Upper Clyde worked over Heath

· Socialist Challenge No. 167, 9 October 1980 · p. 8 of the scan · 194 words

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page 8 of the scan

fight redundancies.

media and the courts on pickets and strike leaders. solidarity in the labour movement.

Occupations are property.

when you return our future to us.' Under the 1970-74 Tory there tion at that time takeover of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.

and sell the others to private firms.

cupied. OCCUPATIONS are the best way to By seizing their factory, workers. koop themselves together, instead of being scattered to their homes. Solidarity can be organised against the attacks of the police and the Delegations can be despatched to build effective than pickets in stopping the removal by management of supplies, machinery, and If they are occupying, workers can say: 'Wo will return your possessions to you, government, were over a hundred occupations against redundancies and as part of militant wages struggles. The classic occupawas the workers' UCS was a consortium of five Glasgow shipyards which the Tories tried to break up. They wanted to close two of the yards decision was announced on 29 July, 1971, and the next day all the yards were ocA demonstration of 30,000 the previous month, accompanied by a one-day general strike in Glasgow in which 150,000 workers can

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