LOBBY THE TUC 5 APRIL, Wembley Conference Centre, 9.00 an Norman 'caveman' Teb bit is again on the war path against trade unionists young people.
He is preparing • Further attacks O1: union rights He is con sidering amnenoments to nis own ant-union Bill now going through to force secret ballots on strikes and layoff without pay workers in enterprises аттестем strikes. • The extension of hus Youth Traininu Schemes to include all youth between 16 and 17 This would enforce a maximum wage of f15 per week.
Tebbit has been en couraged to up the ante by the pathetic failure Tory wage cutting plans for all workers.
Norman Terbit • want minun and Labour prepare any serious fight against his laws The response to his at tacks on youth has been Tebbit's slave labour wages for youth are meant to reinforce disgraceful tebbits proposals for secret strike ballots nOOk have nothing to do with emocratie TOTES He has simply noted the massive im pact that the Tory press can have on union deci sion making, if the pro cedure is taken out of meetings of He SOUL hopeful that playing on plans the isolated individual outside of the solidarity and feeling of collective strength mass meetings will sap any determination of hand. workers to tiaht back The undemocratic way after that the union leaders affairs gives •une opening to Tebbit on this front mer If the anti union youth. laws are Tebbit's right This attacks on task youth constitute sharp blow to the solar plexis It is indispen Under Tebbit's laws union funds will be liable. employer that has the inclination will be able to take to court any union involved in strike action.
that the union and labour move ment rise up to defend the youth. If they don't, not only will the youth suffer a crushing blow, the wate cutting of this Tory government will receive. a massive boost.
The fight for union rights and the fight for youth rights go hand in Rank and file in workers struggle struggle, have shown their willingness fight The youth rebellions of last sum showed in domitable spirit of the all want is a lead. This is a which the meeting of trade union executives on 5 April is unlikely to provide.
Any strike Under Tebbit's laws, the clause waiving liability against an official that repudiates strike action will put pressure on th unions to further discipline the rank and file - even fo every day trade union activity.
Under Tebbit's laws the closed shop will be almost impossible to win or maintain. f20.000 will be paid to scabs or 'nonners Under Tebbit's laws, refusal to obey court orders to sto unionists.
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THE VICTORY of Roy Jenkins in the Hillhead by-election last tion Democratic/Liberal Alliance.
It rubs in the message that the Alliance will be a major obstacle to the achievement of a majority Labour government at the next general election.
But the question remains: how can the SDP be fought by the labour movement and why has that fight been cessful so far?
The Hillhead result does not contradict the trends already established by Warrington, Croydon and Crosby. * That the Tories did and will suffer greater losses at the hands Alliance than the Labour 16.7 per swing away from Tories. a 13.7 per cent swing from Labour).
* That the Alliance will be a serious factor in the formation of the next government unless they politically defeated by Labour (even a cautious extrapolation from Hillhead would give a hung parliament with the Alliance in third place acting as coalltion partners for any possible government to have a majority in the House of Commons).
unsucParty the can Alliance in a seeing it as a Neither The Hillhead campaign should have based itself on the gains of the last conference PO Box 50, London N1 2XP Phone 01-359-8189/8180 (editorial and distribution) direction Tory/Alliance HUNTER cher's the work. which lies at The ment, Party, the party.
The tion of the SDP DOSSeS characterise channel for has never ment action policies, price will be high. At least some serious steps towards the introduction proportional representation will be demanded by the SDP, sufficient to change permanently the shape of the British political 3 situation. In addition, if the primary of such a coalition government, were ž achieved the price would be Thatleadership resulting wholesale reform of the Tory party.
This is the reason for the SDP's backing from the ruling class and why Nelson' eye approach will not It is te crisis or ine lorie. the root of the way in which the SDP has emerged. Its backing has been achieved not because it is an alternative to the Tories, but an essential complement.
Of course the ruling class has not abandoned the struggle to reverse the process of reform of the Labour Party and once again render it a party 'fit for government' — a reliable prop of the capitalist order.
Its chosen instrument is. and re mains, the trade union bureaucrats.
Bishop's Stortford
far from representing 'a truce' in the internal struggle in the Labour represents only the first step towards a growing reassertion of the traditional role of the bureaucracy as the major barrier to left advance in fundamental aim of the right/centre offensive is the promo-
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