IMGpapers 1980–83

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

A 35 HOUR WEEK NOW! BY PAT HICKEY

· Socialist Challenge No. 203, 25 June 1981 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 235 words

The scan: sc-no203.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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of Socialist Challenge. It i vell attended and I explai ine neca to gull 1o occupation of the plant and the opportunities that exist for revolutionaries throughout engineering in the Birmingham area.

agree to organise Socialist Challenge sales at pamphlet on unemployment available from Birmingham Other Bookshop, 137 Digbeth, Birmingham.

all the major car and car component factories in Birmingham.

Thursday The coach for the lobby Brighton leaves. I stay at the plant and the shop floor collection goes extremely well.

Shop stewards are a lot happier with the feeling amongst the membership Friday Those who were orlac obuy • 1CLULI worn out. The TGWU nagave full support and the SDI Siluallol should figure largely in the automotive report to the TGWU bien nial conference.

In the afternoon, Mick Clarke, anc l attend meeting of the newly established car council al county hall. We are given a briefing which includes, in addition to Rover Solihull, items on the general state of industry in the West Midlands.

The meeting is attended by Labour MPs, councillors, as well Mathers, the secretary of There are also Tory MPs and councillors and the regional CBI established and a press statement issuea This body is going to be a problem for us later, or we are going to be prochem We will have to make sure that it is the latter.

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