Fighting the Tories:
Eric Heffer MP Dave Cook (Communist Party)
Steve Potter Marxist Group) - pages 8 & 9 Tariq Ali on May '68 - page 5 How militant Militant? - page 12 DANES plus SAS assassins named - page3 Kramer v Kramer reviewed — page 15 petrifies them. HYSTERIA! That's the only way to describe the reaction of the Tories and An unprecedented barrage of anti-trade union, anti-working class rantings have poured forth from Maggie Thatcher, Jim Prior, the Daily Express and the rest of the millionaire press. Trades unionists have been portrayed as little better than terrorists.
Now the courts have chimed in with their vicious ruling that calling out the printworkers was 'illegal'.
There's a method in this madness. They fear nothing more than the working class taking strike action. The dynamic towards a general strike The Tories have a huge majority in parliament. If we left it to the Labour leaders, the Tories would be in power until 1984. They can easily cope with any amount of resolutions and speechifying. But mass action on the streets not even the SAS murderers.
counter-barrage through mass rallies and so on, to back the Tories.
massive resentment The assume When millions of workers take direct action, then nothing can stop them - not the police, not the SPG, The Tory offensive must be answered. Instead of retreating, the TUC General Council has to step up the action. The whole labour move ment needs to mount a massive of propaganda, meetings, leaflets, explain why political strike action is essential to defend workers' interests and throw Millions of workers will take some form of protest action on 14 May. The against the Tories must now be taken forward.
TUC General Council must responsibilities, to organise the only form of action that is certain to throw the Tories out - a
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