IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

SOLIDARITY! With lorry drivers With train drivers

Socialist Challenge No. 79, 18 January 1979 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 398 words

The scan: sc-n79-jan-18-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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-£65 now Any time, any place Labour leaders prepare for action JiMN DENİS Emergency Labour Ho/ Bousing TIME ANY PLE sizes.

There is the Labour courts.

Merlyn Rees General Sam Silken are looking at ways to picketing. Callaghan and Foot shout from the roof tops that the 5 per cent guideline" stay. Benn keeps down. There is the Tory breed led by Thatcher who threatens compulsory secret ballots and security for strikers families withdrawal There is the CBI, led by Sir John Methven, unleashing a witch-hunt against the Transport workers union.

There is the media breed They slander strikers, distort what their struggles are about and lie, lie and lie again.

But just what are the dogs howling about? "scandalous' lorry drivers who are just asking for a basic wage of £65 week. "disgraceful' workers in The dogs of war are howling. Howling for the blood, money and democratic rights of trade unionists. The war the dogs are waging is the war against trade unionists and the dogs themselves come in a variety of breeds and Government breed. Ministers Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams are said to want an immediate freeze in all wage rises — a freeze backed by the and Attorney prevent effective must his head which is week.

At the *The Labour movement is under attack by the bosses and Government policies But Tony Benn stays silent. important •Benn believes that his job Line cabinet Is more cles .............. public sector, and all they want wages, £60 a week. At train drivers whose one day strikes are in pursuit of an extra £3.40 a None of them is asking for very much. All would settle for five percent of Callaghan's than opposing Labour's reactionary poliFor Thatcher's wages or the media moguls' wages It is the duty of every trade unionist in the country to come to the aid of their brothers and sisters in struggle. The battle they are waging is the battle of the low paid. Solidarity. Whenever a real fight is needed Benn is nowhere to be seen MORE PAGES THAN THE SUN!

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AN APPEAL for revolutionary unity and joint work, regroupment of revolutionaries. After two

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With public sector workers-£60 now

- £3.40 bonus now • With all of them for a 35 hour week

SHAH FLEES IRAN -See Pages 4 and 5 BENN STAYS SILENT

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