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Socialist Challenge No. 185, 19 February 1981 · p. 2 of the scan · 375 words

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The flames of revolt must rise higher.

the Tories: Enough is enough.

1 fight sackings enough and WORKING people in Britain today are fed up.

After nearly two years of Tory rule the threat of the dole queue hangs over us all.

Margaret Thatcher's campaign for "individual freedoms' has been exposed as support for the right of the bosses to treat workers as expendable commodities. Three million people have Thatcher to thank for the right to choose from 100,000 job The huge turn-out for the Labour Party's demonstration against unemployment in Liverpool last November and the swing to the left in the Labour Party are indications of a growing revolt.

This coming weekend the Glasgow demonstration against unemployment, by mobilising many, many thousands, can thunder out a challenge to focus the hostility against the obscene policies of the Tories and set in motion a nationwide moveThat movement must fight on five points:

The miners have shown that workers want to fight against the loss of jobs and that they are powerful determined enough to do so. They have answered every pessimist and cynic who says fronted by mass action.

Fight for jobs

not bombs cannot Labour Party demand.

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there is nothing to be done.

Strikes and occupations, like Gardner's, show the way forward. That's what stops sackings. That is what must be done at Talbot, Linwood. Otherwise the jobs will disappear. employers only start talking when they are conThe priorities of Thatcherism make clear why we tolerate such government. decline, as the Health Service deteriorates, as industrial investment declines, the Tories jack up their expenditure on Trident and Cruise missiles.

This horrifying madness must be fought. We have to build CND and we have to fight Foot and the Labour Party leaders who want to scab on the conference nuclear disarmament. Jobs not bombs must be our A good start in this campaign would be to build Missiles in Manchester on 28 March.

democracy into the unions The fight against the right wing in the Labour Party is part and parcel of the struggle against the Tories

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