Breaking this Liaison Committee for the organise the rank-and-file.
The working class armies already moving into battle. Leyland workers have put out the call for a conference against continued incomes policy, and strike action in April.
Public sector workers striking against cuts on 9 March in and May WHAT'S ON Dom. saturdav Detore ouoi! nales. zo per word except tor wer noverent events.
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Schoo Experience dire part Sarthmo Marcation it Mina Road, nr M32) Wage cuts, unemployment, service cuts — this is the real meaning of the 'Social Contract' — the Labour Government's "solution' to the crisis which is supposed to serve bosses and workers alike.
Social Contract should be the which the conference taking place this weekend, called by the Defence of Trade Unions, must But where will the generals of the Communist Party, the main force behind the LCDTU, attempt to lead these armies? We need only to look at the CP's battle plan to find the answer.
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WHO KILLED Jonn snon ano oine i1 Pen-y-wain Place, Roath, Carditi differences BENGALI FRIENDS in 7.30pm. 1Box 3274, 10365 stock holm, Sweden TRADE UNION Democracy and th 1 12 nom sai 26 et aim for As Derek Robinson, ber and Leyland Combine Chairman put it: *The trade unions have not yet taken any decision on the phase 3 deal. We are still in the discussion stage and we that debate. We hope to influence return to free June ade umons anu une covern ment for a return to free collective Darcalnine Unfortunately a pressure campaien to simply restore tree colarch 73000 lective bargaining in August' will neither effectively mount a fight to restore the wage cuts of phases 1 Bundy and Il, nor is it the best way to defeat the attempts to further wage CULO WAIT co-sponWhen Jack Jones points out that Analist). Nkosazan: •ne soda contacts more anar just a wages rusher ampeais tor workers to wal Journalists NEC and see' St Bride's, appealing to the low paid workers with the support for a 'political solution' to the crisis.
CP mem- A policy bargaining" une low CHICHE falling differentials, are participating in and Labour wage restraint. matic rises td policy, and Alan - 15 s0 IDollane what is offered, they are prepared to aim of winning their of "tree collective alone does little to paid and skilled lost wages now workers in a fight against their which is not but ine cro sion of wage levels due to inflation STeWarOS That is why the fight for autoREJECT fight to Wing, called by the LCDTU compensate lor comes policy inflation — a sliding scale of wages The Communist Party is not Amount a light instead it prefers to march with the "allies", the left trade union leaders who support "flexibility" through free collective bargaining, but who refuse to organise a fight to regain LOR The Communist Party opposed the motion to support struggles aeRins une current Leyland BECCULE and Opposed submitting a claim which broke the social contract un novers DOSSC.
Delegates at the LCDTU must reject strategy 'waitine for the lefts. and instead fight to turn the day of strike acuon tor free concenvc Darzai the Leyland stewthe social contract, and to commit SUDSULLIHE struggles against the present inThe CP would have us play the same waiting for lefty' game over Fisher and his ilk in the public sector unions have no intention of mounting an all-out fight against ine cuts — uney know tal this will Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report)
bring them into direct confronta with the social contractWICH LUCY SUDDOrL AVOID Instead they avoid any national Srueue. De callne or arca striKes and days of action. They too try to tind a social contract which -Cai aid both the workers and the which in reality means attacking the workers to boost the bosses' profits. The CP wants to march with these 'allies' and with pleadings for the government to change its course'. In reality this is like asking the enemy who has declared war not to battle toc ferociously Nanona strike acuon is wiat required. London NUPE has callec tor is members to suke deds the cuts on 11 May. The LCDTU should support that call and fich to build a national day of strike action throughout the public secto on that date.
It should also demand that the leit taiking trade unions act, D
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