Socialist Challenge1980Socialist Challenge No. 148, 22 May 1980ON THEI
Socialist Challenge No. 148, 22 May 1980 · p. 3 of the scan · 132 words
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Bristol, 2,000 in Leeds. 2.000 and 1,400 in Nottingham.
In terms of strikes. bet two million ween people stayed away work including Hulles. steelworkers, electricians, bus workers, rail workers, and others in South Wales; print workers, bus workers, railway workers and something like 50,000 local government workers in London; and total of a quarter of a million workers in Scotland.
A total of about 100,000 people took part in demonstrations across the country.
Perhaps the biggest weakness support was in and large-scale manufacturing, possibly reflecting the move to the right in the AUEW. With a firm lead from the TUC the number of those taking action would easily have been doubled. The facts of what happened on 4 Mav show that the will to fight is there.
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