From then on, the prospect all-out strike receded The majority of those on indefinite strike would only conprovided they were strike pay full take t not. unc over majority those 'suspended' would have backer These selective strikes have been sufficient to force the City Council to accept arbitration despite a considerable number eatistically this is no which to reject the offer of arbitration and to continue the strike indefinitely in the hope of securing a clear-cut settleHolliday writing in Worker (31 October) says he doesn't wish to simply criticise but to argue a strategy - and ac But I believe that what he puts forward is an ultra-left perspective which would leave the typists with nothing.
Vice-Chairperson, Liverpool Branch over the heads the allowed Sir Trevor Jones, leader Citv Counci. to take the initiative from for a form of arbitation. in abandoned doing, thoy have the I CANNOT AGREE with Steve October) that the Cuban revolution 'didn't throw up organs The Committees in Defence of the Revolution (CDRs) are popular assemblies based on the localities. In them immer horses rear faster social activity child care and so on.
When they mobilise block by block, area by area, city by city, you see where the power really lies in Cuba.
I was in Cuba the day after the fascist coup in Chile. Far wing developments Bolivia and Peru and it was a serious fear that Cuba might well be invaded. A Cuban ship was at that very time being pursued and shelled by the Chilean navy The CDRs mobilised from one end of the Island to the other and flooded into Havana on horses, ox carts, trucks and army vehicles. It looked like the whole island was on the move. This was repeat performance of what had hap pence winks had S oked a fine sali standing Revolu , the US Bay of Pigs invasion tionary Army and thought They too forgot about the CDRs and the armed strength of millions of Cuban workers.
If Fidel is a Stalinist, I wish the Russian bureaucrats were u 'Stalinist' as he.
Branch Delegate, Hatfield Main NUM.
position of strength built up in the previous WORKS of solidarity tions by thousands of NALGO members and Jones has almost succeeded getting the typists back to work after four monIns - for nothing.
What kind of •a step forward is this?
The real leaps. for.
ward in the course of в†тіко organisation and Archer's claim (15 , youngsters and men organise themselves in alloca were ' afoot Cuba would be a pushover militancy of the typists and the mass solidarity actions of others in their support, have all been ignored in Alan may have been lost ir the outcome Is this what Socialist Challenge wants?
JOHN STRAUTHER, Liverpool NALGO Action Group * 1931 Pago 11