worst. 1 could be Struggle — pay and The white, union leadership these women. women, blacks, elc, will be able to do some ching about their situation Take Grunwicks which Dick mentions. It is the most hard-fought and polstically advanoed struggle of the year. Firstly. it is being fought by Asians, many of them women. Second, it is a primarily - against the super-exploitation of the swearshop, and against the low bad conditions faced women and immigrants.
male workin class by many that ical debate cluding the IMG inevitable classless society.
JOR HILL, (Manchester].
kitchen by the TUC Hence? ar conmen come out screaming. prices in those relevant areils.
went mad SaD be wage and saland FOR SOONEY.
hence, tives: right, lelt and centre T. WILKINSON, (Rhyl) Having bad a tendency towards socialism from an carly age, and a past member of che Communis: Party and the International Socialists (SWP), 1 would like to express my appreciation of recent issues of Socialist Chullenge. find refreshing and bealthy, because it at Jeast read by other socialist groups besides those who as tongue us samarine costout postI must stress I am not a member of the IMG. But at 59, 1 do not find this bars me from com bined political discussion and struggle, alongside contrades from other organisations. ab May I suggest that your supporters and critics alike rend again the "Barcie of Ideas' in Donald commented on the crisis facing the To do so could possibly lead to the corn DIng DE MuSt a see a present as cabre brand sations — capable of linking together in an Tam looking forward to the Xmas 1978 issue. Does the official abandonment of the firemen Party, they have finally betrayed those very principles which are their only reason for existBefore any of the apologists, Labour, TUC consider Is it possible, in a genuine democracy, t officially restrict incomes whilst allowing, obviously phoney smokescreen of controls, prices and profits to run wild? This is an important question sioce when wages and salaries in basic industries are recognised as the platform of the economy and thus control indirectly 'all" wages and salaries.
Then before phases 4 and 5 etc. are accepted we have the right and "duty" to insist upon knowing the wages and salaries in basic industry expressed as a percentage of the consumer clude figures both now and, for comparison, 25 years ago, before price and profit inflation Also, we need to have stated officially what is the currently acceptable percentage relationCONSCI prices in the same areas excluding the payThis letter is a direct accusation that vital opinion-forming material is being withheld from publie knowledge as national policy that this situation is an intolerable breach of humao rights - a denial of the basic principles of democracy: i.e. the decision of the people in full knowledge of - all of The ability to recognise, resist and expose this kind of political mindbeading and mass indoctrination is a principal gunlification for all genuine trade union and political representa To those in office and to the TUC: if you can't do it, get out of the bloody kitchen?