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Socialist Challenge No. 248, 4 June 1982 · p. 3 of the scan · 500 words

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Led living standards Tebbit's law - is launched.

the South Atlantic, has been done in the back:

for individual this 'unemployment' Bill gives rights' to 400 who refused to join a union and attacks the rights of 10 million trade unionists - COMMANDER Margaret Thatcher and her motley crew on the HMS Tory government has sent the task force out to attack the working class in Britain. Right from day one three years ago. Thatcher has first blitz and created millions unemployed. When even that has not resulted in any significant defeat of the workers movement, a direct assault on the rights of trade unions - in the form of And all of this, like the sending of the task force to name freedom. But the only people who will benefit from their vicious policies are the Tories and their friends in high places: the bosses and the landowners. But like the Argentinians, the workers in Britain are fighting taking strike action. miners' president, Arthur Scargill said, Oper could care s couldn't care about this legislation. If we are in violation of the Tory government's legisof of As 'We don't less in drivers Tories face THE TORIES have lost some important battles their war on the unions. The miners took strike action and forced pit closures. train took on the they and all raorkers won. Now were fight against job losses and worsening of conditions Council workers have taken industrial action against privatisation of local services, such as in Wandsworth and workers have occupied up and down the country in defence of jobs.

The most determined the workers of Laurence Scott in Manchester. For over a year they fought tooth and THATCHER has declared war on all fronts. Black poople are harassed by horrendous immigration laws which divide families and they are brought courts on trumped up charges.

Today in Leeds th conspiracy charges which carry the possibility of imprisonment. As Mick Connolly from the South East Regiona Council of the TUC said on a picket in Leeds last week: These people are being victimised for their past political activity The charges are designe to put tham in jail fo years.' Now one of the defendants Jayesh Amin, has had all the charges against him dropped. Although he had a cast iron alibi for when the offences were alleged to have taken place, he spent 3 months in jail and has sat through four and half weeks of the trial before it was agreed he had 'no case to answer'. nail to save their jobs Occupying their factory. they faced bailiffs, police and flying helicopters. When the leaders engineering union failed to support them, the Scott workers took up a COCCI INTO ENEMI itself. Their struggle was an inspiration to all other workers facing -redun dancies.

Socialist Challenge 4 June 1982 page 3

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TEBBIT'S LAW: claiming freedom

The poor are poor because they don't have enough

NO CONSPIRACY POLICE CONSPIRACY O CON Sir Keith Joseph

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