But solidarity alone is not enough. The reason for this confrontation is that the Tories too have new confidence. Faced with the great organisational strength of the unions, they feel that the war and the witch-hunt have given them political grounds for a successful clash. that a policy which splits the working class is paramount. Foot and Healey have played right into her hands with their witch-hunt against Labour Party ICIL The battle against the witch-hunt, and with it Foot's disastrous leadership, is thus the key to the future of the working class movement in Britain.
The union right wing understand this perfectly. The day after the NUR conference suspended strike action on Thatcher realises ended thes wing activists.
Trotskyist Revenue Staffs British Rail, and on the same day that London iransport workers' action, Sid Weighell gave his full backing to the expulsion of Militant 'and other rag, tag and bobtail The Inland war.
Federation leaders have told the Broad Left that it will be suspended by 12 July unless it abandons its 'union within a union!' The Labour leaders' attack is, purely and simply, open sabotage of the struggle against Thatcher.
The picture is not complete without an accounting for the Malvinas Thatcher fully understands its importance. In a keynote speech over the weekend of 3-4 July, she called for the "Falklands spirit' to apply to the rail strike. 'Railworkers should think of the nation's well-being', she said — that is, they should scab on their fellows. The "Falklands factor', she said, was now a 'new major force in British politics.' Thatcher's war was not just a war