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around 2 million.
Tory spokespeople say that the figures are due to the new school leavers - but that Is ony bart or une story. avery day brings news of more redundancies almost every part of the country is being OIL. * At Fords 2,300 jobs are to go, including 1,300 at TUESDAY's annoncement that 1,600,000 The 1.6m figure conceals the fact that hundreds of thousands of women and others are not registered for work - the real figure is certainly Dagenham and Swansea. addition there WIlloC TUU tewer jobs unal planned at the new Bridgend plant. * 30,000 jobs have been Jost since the beginning or tne in the West Midlands region. Thousands of redundancies are proposed at the Lucas car components plants is being waged Dugnam ana CoveHuy 4nS0U 1ohs threat the South Wales' pits, in addition to the 11,000 1obs about to be OST the Llanwern and Port Talbot steel plants.
* n ine vorth west inere are now 296,000 unemployed with only 14,374 vacancies. In Warrington, where thousands of threatened, unempioyea againsı a paltry 1,500 vacancies The response of the TUC and aDOul cicadersl this appalling situation has been pathetic. Despite protest ac ousu aLOIs. SCHIOUS fight against unemployment COl Herd. STC con venor told Socialist Challenge: people are benne causat In unc holocaust of Tory policies. But Murray and the IcaacrsnD are just twiddlins their thumbs - - the only sign of a fightback is coming from une rank ana lle •What we need is for our national leaders to organise a fight. That's why I'm supporTU che Lobby for Jobs ai the catastrophe unemployment inevitable. A sustained fight for ue so-nour week and work sharing with no loss of pay (mixed-race) demonstrators.
of South African security forces.
Ceremonies a mixture of tear gas and sneezing powder.
both in Soweto and the Cape. murderers WHILE Britan's Rugby Union 'Lions' were voting unanimously to continue their tour of South Africa, South African riot police were out in the black townships of Cape Town killing black and 'coloured' The demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the black uprising in Soweto, in which thousands died at the hands The demonstrations started on 15 June when 400 blacks turned up at a church in Soweto, despite a government ban on commemoration ceremonies. Riot police moved in to attack the demonstrators, using clubs, tear gas, and their own contribution to antiriot technology, the 'sneeze machine' which pours out At the same time a widespread strike against the apartheid regime was beginning among black workers
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people are out of work is just the visible tip of a jobs catastrophe hitting working people in Bri-
on the rampage