Photo: SOCIALIST WORKER S.E.U. ial Picket CUT Before the raid on LSE backing from the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering unions support is still pouring in. Tony Benn MP says the strike has given hope to millions. I hope the entire British labour and trade union movement will support your campaign.
Peter Hain, executive member of the Labour Co-ordinating Committee, deplores the actions of the Conted executive against the clearly expressed and democratic wishes of the membership at Laurence would urge every trade unionist to ig nore that decision and to give as much practical support as possible to this struggle."
Support That practical support is needed now more than ever. As Bernard Connolly, cralt convenor from Steel, South Yorkshire told Socialist of the dispute on page 5.
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workers of Laurence Scott.
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entire labour Tories and their defeated once and for all.
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Phil Penning. Laurence Scott steward gives the story Challenge: 'We're prepared to sup financially, physically, morally, any way they want. We're asking the stewards to vote half our funds to Laurence Scott. We're ap AUEW and other attitude to their fight for Having been involved in the fight for jobs, we feel very close to the The workers at Laurence Scott have shown they are not prepared to be ground down by any one: bosses Now they need the full strength of the labour movement if they are to be victorious in their fight for jobs. Such a victory will mean much more than 650 jobs saved; it will be a clarion call to the movement that the friends can be Messages of support and donations to G Frver, 20 Rounderoft, Romiley, strike as Socialist Challenge went to press and his condition was reported to be rapidly deteriorating. Already, Thatcher has driven nine hunger strikers to their death.
But the Tories policies on Ireland are increasingly under attack . The Sunday Times has nov withdrawal from Ireland and the Cabinet itself is reported to be split over the hunger strike On page 9, H Block candidate in the Fermanagh by-election, Owen Carron talks to Socialist Challenge SOLDAR ON Poland: New strike threat Printers in Poland have threatened to go on strike in protest against government media attacks on the independent union Soldarity. The printers complain of the stric control the Communist Party exercises over the media.
Solidarity has just
how the union should be published its ideas organised. It is one of the most democratic plans for rank and file control union members have published anywhere. On pages 6 and 7 Socialist Challenge reprints Solidarity's proposals.
Lothian: Is it the end?
Labour-controlled
Lothian council in Scotland has gone back on earlier decisions to defy the demands made by the Tory Government for cuts in council spending Is this the end of th Lothian struggle? Or is new fight possible! Socialist Challenge talks to Lothian councillors, who voted to continue the resistance to the Tories demands. See page 4.
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