ers met WE HAVE to we can s in inarty of Transport Union. fight is con- need unemployment, nature.
that kplace, гу. e quesame ine: that in the WORKERS ploding.
TOTCES CaSS ment.
reject the Phil solutions put forward by the likes of Moss Evans, against general secretary of the According to him all being to reduce is pany, moved. work a bit harder, tighten our belt, pull through it explained Phil, there's light at the end of the tunnel.
industry more competitive. But We just need to get British the trade more and more the myth that the bosses to solve the crisis is exPaddington, Denny FitzPatrick, Post Office Engineering Union, Westminster spoke of the need to build a party of worker revolutionaries. We want to give alternative leadership to challenge the misleaders. We can only do that from the inside. Building a revolutionary party now is not an abstract task but a vital component of leftward moving It's the differences that exist in the working class which makes such a party so necessary. Women and black workers wont just lead their own sectors.
Because they have to challenge the most entrenched labour bureaucracy on questions such as racism and sexism, they will be in a strong position to take on that bureaucracy on all other questions.
The party we want to build should be able to confront the key issues facing the - the war drive, Ireland, unemployIt will not grow in ones or twos but through the big political changes that are taking place. Do workers see our organisation as a useful instrument? They can be convinced if we're there with them.
We're being thrown up to the front because the opportunities are there.
Penning
Laurence Scott, explained why they had gone into occupation the closure their Manchester factory. After nin weeks of occupation action was stepped up to pretent supplies from the DaCi Coll Mining Supplies being This is against Prior's law, 'but it doesn't seem to matter if 650 jobs are going up the road This dispute will be won. If unions had moved like Socialist Challenge then we would have won already.' Hazel McPherson from the National Union of Railwaymen explained the rail. Elsie Broad, shop steward from Royal Pride striking for union recognition fight against redundancies in *Some 38,000 jobs are on the line.
agreement around electrification is Just letting ine by ime. Each line has to be justified for productivity, ur viability and efficiency.
supporters have take up the building of the TriAlliance with the miners and steel workers. Control Phil Davies, convenor from Schreibers in Manchester, plained that the biggest mistake they made in their latest battle against redundancies was not keeping control of the shop floor and letting the full time OLLICCIs Lakc OVer Raghib shop steward trom Kover sollnull. pointed out that black workers are more and more convinced that there are no jobs for them. But many were not confident to take up the struggle.
However, black workers at Rovers were fighting back because 'these whites might not find a job, but we have no gle world wide.
field Young CND Nicaragua and Grenada.
Tony, oppressed people across the world.
Jacintha, political voice.
ment.
of the working class, class collaboration. capitalism.
Democratic Front (FDR).
to tie the hand of imperialism.
stop us is to kill us all.
their struggle against closure.
the world over.
NS for funds As Bernie Kavanagh, secretary of Shefsaid: 'The future represented by young people. They will fight for the future that is being fought for in Cuba And the speakers did represent those very struggles that are taking place now, against oppression, imperialism and the war drive.
the Grenadan New Jewel Movement, stressed that the people of his country identify with the struggles of all the His call 'forward ever, backward never was a rallying cry throughout the evening.
from People's Democracy and the Dublin Youth Committee against the H Blocks, spoke of the involvement of youth in the struggle in Ireland where they had no And Francoise from the French JCR, a sister organisation of Revolution Youth, plained of the important developments that are taking place in France with the election of a Socialist Party/Communist Party govern'Something has begun to change in France. It's in the air. We want a government not a government of want an end to The struggle of the people of El Salvador against imperialism was taken up by Jaime Lopez, a representative of the Revolutionary He explained that the 'crime' of the people was to be poor and to oppose the Junta's policy. 'We are asking the people of the world 'The only way American imperialism can The rally ended with an appeal from Jed of the Laurence Scott occupation to support The platform represented what Revolution Youth is about - building an organisation of youth, workers and students committed to fight imperialism, capitalism and oppressior Francoise from the French JCR (left,) Jacintha from Peoples Democracy and Charlie Van Gelderen who made a rousing appeal is Jaime Lopez, representative from the FDR of El Salvador exTony, Grenadan New Jewel Movement Socialist Challenge 2 July 1981 Page
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