Sum: A. Led Trade Phone Chis od higher mutually JOBS internal and the WHAT'S LEFT SC EVENTS for more info ring phone Colin, AMNESTY FOR ST PAUL'S. New badge ecial offer of 15p for orde RADFORD: SC available from Fourth Id okshop, 14 Southgat supporters sell every Sat Mornin • IO Cheltenham Rd, Montpelier try, in the West Midlands, was known as a boom town. Its workers had some of the highest wages in the country, the lowest levels of unemployment.
was inspired by ideas of town planning and community With the onset of the present reces.
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backbone of Coventry's economy.
Every week the local press reports ponents. Most recently Renold Chain my Best Aimed are to one VEWHAM: SC sale every Saturday, Ilam to THROUGHOUT the 50s and 60s Coven. sion the town is facing problems on a , and a WILL closed with 800 redundancies.
What does all • mean tor Coventry workers? Each week dole queues grow longer, and more 30-12.30pm in Cornmari Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Public meeting Wednesday 23 July at 7.30pm "For a full discussion on the crisis of the world Trotskyist movemen Reconstruct the Fourth Internationa scale it has not dreamt of. Yet there are no miracle solutions; there will be no 'municipal socialism' for Coventry alone.
REESE and GINSBURG look at the background to the recession in Coventry and the facts ofife for workers in the town today.
OD and more young people decide tr eave the town. Coventry in the '60 was full of young workers with young families. Now the populasis mation abour local a Sires, el. 061-882 FORD: SC supporters sell every Fri 12-2 SC on sale 11-I every Sat., Regen NORMAN La huge Edwardes' years that again. Solutions who came to the town for the crisis.
Borouzhi Hotel, Corporation: Rd, rough 1: The Bla Communist Part d. Speaker: Clach an IMPERIALISM IN THE EIGHTIES REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST TENDENCY SEPTEMBER 1980 Post-war stability established under the domination of US mperialism is givil berialism in The Elentes will discuss the present tendenc and assess their significance for the For further information, agenda, venue write to Helen Swift (A9) BM RCT, London WCIV 6XX, or ring 01-274 3951, or see th next step. Conference fee £5.00 prepaid, $6.50 door.
Coventry in _its boom years established a tradition of a high level of employment for women. Now the town has a higher proportion ..of registered unemployed women than During the boom years Coventry struggled establish the right to waged work, the relative prosperity of Coventry workers was based on the two-wage family so the present slump affects families eve adversely. Each week an average of two families are evicted from either their council housing or -from the home they are buying on a working class have faded away. Instead there is a glamorous cathedral, shopping centre, derelict housing, lengthening dole queues, ill-health, and poverty Workers at the BL Jaguar plant in Coventry put up a fiery resistance to plan cut a swathe through their working conditions, but they were isolated and couldn't stand up to the combined weight of the union bureaucracy and Edwardes trying to get them back to work.
This should have shown once and ¿for all that Coventry workers cannot take on their problems alone Despite this there is still an illu sion carried over from the boom economy; that all it has to do is be Coventry local flexible, ride the present storm, and before long Coventry will be great In the '50s and '60s plant-based actions and local concessions like the Coventry Toolroom Agreement put Coventry workers ahead of the field in wages and conditions. These tactics are not an effective reply to the level of attacks as the bosses internationally try to make workers across Britain pay for their economic crisis.
The solutions required now de nand that workers forge links n nly nationally but international and place demands that insist i that workers shoulder no responsibility IMG NOTICES toe Borin CONFERENCE 5/6/7 will discuss the present tendencie WOrKIng Class Socialist Challenge 10 July 1980 Page 3
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OVER 200 delegates from CLPs, trade unions, and trades all over London attended a discussion conference on Saturday on how to resist the Tories Local Government Bill and how to fight for a socialist GLC.
London Labour Briefing (LLB), magazine whose policy SO Don anytning submitted to it from the left, called the conference. But the aelegates took по poncy deciSo The main theme of the clue was now to arcoat the resistance Michael WESTERN THOMSON CONTROLS Lid WHO NEEDS NURSERIES?
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