Day strike Success | IMGpapers 1980

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NEARLY 400 of the 533 social security benefit offices were closed last Friday as a result of a one-day strike call by the civil service unions. There was a massive response from all areas of the country.

to a rally. It was in Erdington, Birmingham that the dispute began 11 weeks ago when the staff walked out demanding more staff to cope with the massively increased workload. As local Labour MP Jeff Rooker told the rally 'There has been a 22 percent increase in the number of claimants in the West Midlands, but a 2 percent cut in staff. of the action to force the government to negotiate. In Birmingham, over 1000 people marched Firm calls were made for the stepping up Socialist Challenge 10 December 1982 page

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BERNADETTE recently toured America, visiting Paul, Minnesota; New York; Boston; Burlington; Vermont; San Francisco; Saskatchewan; and couver, British Columbia.

The following speech (abbreviated) was New York on members of District Council 37 of the American Federation County Municipal Employees. At the meeting she was with a copy of a resolution supporting the struggle of the people of Northern that was passed at the last AFSCME conference.

WE in Ireland have been struggling for independence from Britain since before capitalism itself But our present struggle dates back to the turn of the century, when a movement developed among small nations across Europe fighting dependence. Historically, the beginning of the the great anti-imperialist movements.

The Irish rebellion took place on Easter of 1916. Like every other combat between ourselves English. it was an ill-balanced affair. Facing the British army were several hundred dedicated young men and women. They came from Cummann na mBan, the Irish women's army;

Irish Brotherhood; and from James Connolly's Irish Citizen Army.

Connolly was one of the few people at that time who understood that winning Ireland's freedom required combining the fight for its national independence and the fight for the rights of its developing working class. He raised the slogan that the cause of Ireland is the cause of labor and the McAliskey North Detroit; St Montreal;

Vandelivered in 22 October to and presented developed.

for it marked and the Republican Bobby In 1918 there