It will need more than words, however, to stop these proposals going through. What determined the defeat of Heath's Industrial Relations Act was not brave words issued from Congress House but mass action - notably that of the miners for the March issue - however small. It all helps.
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It is such action that is needed today and not the trips by TUC members back and forth to Downing Street to 'negotiate' with Jim Prior.
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Rather than discussing with the Tories, what the TUC should be doing is preparing mass resistance to the Prior proposals. We should proposals against trade unionists will meet mass opposition.
also not be let off the hook. Will they also agree to support mass action against Prior's attempts to curb the unions? Will they also guarantee to repeal these laws (if passed when they get back into office?
£10.00 It is resolutions along these lines that need to be urgently £4.00 ... £4.50 pushed through trade union and Labour Party branches in the coming weeks and months. .$2.00 HANDS OFF THE UNIONS! . £2.00 MASS RESISTANCE AGAINST TORY CURBS! •. 21.00 MAKE LABOUR PLEDGE TO REPEAL THE ACT! call on them to let the government know that any attempt to use these Moreover, Labour leaders should higher wages. of reaction.
However Mugabe's government opts tactically to deal with this situation in the period ahead, one thing remains clear. Sooner in. or later, the Zimbabwean people will demand that their hopes & aspirations - aroused during the long war of liberation - are met.
They will demand that the land the white settlers stole from them - and the resources they, and their Imperialist backers, have monopolised - are returned to them and used for the benefit of all people. They will demand that Black majority rule means majority rule and not the economic domination of a tiny, white minority. Indications that this is already beginning to happen van be seen in the wave ot mi. itant strikes among Blacks for In this sense, the struggle in Zimbabwe is far from over. For us, in Britain, as the tensions develop, our central task should be camp. aigning in the labour movement to ensure that the Tory government can never again intervene in Zimbabwe to back the forces