SOCIALIST PAPER FOR YOUTH | IMGpapers 1980

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REVOLUTION UNEMPLOYMENT MARCH FOR JOBS- CARDIFF JULY 4 FIGHT THE TORIES for jobs LIVERPOOL LONDON MAY 81 try. out the Tories.

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Revolution May/ June 1981 LEEE SIT IN TEANS 'WE ARE women workers fighting for our jobs. Women's jobs are as important as any other, and we aim to prove that women can fight for them.' That's the message from the workers at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock who have been in occupation for over four months.

They are fighting to save the jobs of 250 workers, mainly young women, against the company's closure plans. And they are showing that women and young people have a right to work The occupation has received massive support from the labour movement across the country. Dockers have pledged to boycott Lee Jeans products coming into the counAnd in the west of Scotland, where thousands are already on the dole the Clydeside shipyard workers have taken weekly collections for the Lee Jeans strikers.

But the occupation isn't just a struggle to save 250 jobs. It's about fighting unemployment and kicking As one Lee Jeans worker explained: 'It's not just our inere s ine wnoie working class. Somebody has to make a stand otherwise Britain's just going to be one big The stand of the Lee Jeans workers and of the workers occupying Laurence Scott's in Manchester is a shining example to the whole labour movement on how to 5p It was a militant occupa tion that saved the jobs of Gardner's workers in Manmilitant action that will save the jobs of Leyland workers at Rover Solihull.

But these heroic struggles are not enough to end unemployment. We need a national campaign to do that.

The Peoples' March has shown that building such a movement is possible. Wherever it has passed thousands of workers have demonstrated their disaus with the Tory government, and their sympathy with those fighting back.

The policies of this Tory government have brought nothing but misery to working people and youth.

Their anger has to be turned into a national movement of industrial action led by the unions and the Labour Party to kick the Tories out once and for all.

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