No. 194 WEEKLY Price 10p RED WEEKLY is moving to new and better premises next week. As a result the next issue of the paper will appear on 20 April. For the time being all copy should be sent c/o Relgocrest, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1.Telephone for Editorial 01-359-8288 Distribution is still 97 London N1. Telephone 01-837-9987. Caledonian Road, national strike action should be a fight for policies which put the blame for the crisis with those who made it - the ruling class. That involves building an alternative leadership to Scanion and Jones and to those, like the Communist Party, who hang onto their coat tails.
What would such an alternative leadership do? The first against this Government's anticlass policies. trade union leaders have only been prepared to pull out one section after another.
When Fisher organised the 17 November against the cuts, Scanlon said that 'industry" came before hospitals and schools.
When the toolmakers struck Fisher rounded on them as "muscle merchants'. The steelworkers have got the same cold shoulder from some leaders of rank and file The only real unity between different groups of workers is a unity in action against betrayals of the leadership.
National strike action would be a first step in that direction.