NT LINE ≥ London guards protest outside union headquarters against DON Shildon workers demonstrating against closure of By P McDermott rallworkers for Thatcher to return to office jobs and living standards.
• BECAUSE the lost under the Tories.
to put his anti-union laws.
SDP-type policies.
wing on the movement as a whole. stops to defeat government.
our will * Start now to sell our 1. Contacting local strike committees 3. Calling public meetings port back the railworkers *Get your trade messages support, sheets, and help on the picket lines Socialist Challenge • BECAUSE the Tories want to use a defeat Eln the wake Falklands war to call a general election. defeat for the railworkers will make it easier — and then we'll have another five years of attacks on railworkers are in the front lines of the fight against Thatcher. Il they win, the door will be opened for other workers to win back some of what we have • BECAUSE support for the railworkers is the best way of telling boot-boy Tebbit where • BECAUSE support for the railworkers will also give the right-wing 'leaders' — including Weighell - the loud message that the Tories will be defeated by struggle, not by • BECAUSE support for the struggle is the best way of defeating the witch-hunt in the Labour Party which is an attack by the right• BECAUSE the Tories are ruining our rail system, cutting jobs, cutting services, refusing to restock and modernise, at the same time as they are selling off the profitable sections so their friends in the City can make big profits, and we are left to pay higher prices.
THE national press, the telly, and the radio have started to launch their campaign to support the Tories to defeat the railworkers. Socialist Challenge is out to do just the opposite. We're pulling out all this disastrous Tory Our supporters in the rail industry, in other workplaces and in the Labour Party and the Labour Party Young Socialists will be work. ing flat out to win this fight. Week by week giving facts, discussing the tactics in the fight, and we will be ready to expose any sell-out manoeuvres.
We want other workers to join us in the struggle for a workers' solution to the crisis, and help us to sell Socialist Challenge. So your local rail depot and at British Rail Socia weekly at * Get your Labour Party or LPYS branch to pledge full support to the railworkers by: 2. Organising solidarity tours to win support speakers from the rail unions and other industries 4. Demanding your MP gives full public sup. 5. Passing resolutions calling on the NEC to union branch, shop stewards committee, Trades Council to send circulate collection 24 June 1982 page 5
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SAVE SHILDON WORKS support the railworkers