IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Exposed

Socialist Challenge No. 182, 29 January 1981 · p. 16 of the scan · 283 words

The scan: sc-n182-jan-29-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 16 of the scan

As the Tory recession continues avace. there Is Last November 150,000 November 150,000 workers demonstrated against unemployment in Liverpool. Now two luither protests are planned against spiralling dole queues.

On 21 February, the Scottish trade unions and Labour Party will be massive anti-Tory demonstration through Glasgow.

The Tories are planning more unemployment. Their cuts in public services will LHOW thousands more people on the Thatcher boasts of Britain being number world arms LANCE in tne spending league, 1,600 will lose their jobs Norfolk and colnshire school meals SCI VICED and schools, hospitals, and council services face the Tory axe. JOINT SHOR SCOTLAND PAISLEY& DISTRICT The Daily Star gave the document front page coverage, and the plan ol ine bL boara were ex posed to thousands of BL workers who, unfor tunately. don't reac Socialist Challenge. story was later picked up Newsline, and the aMdian. Guardian, ing Star.

This is the third time Socialist Challenge has published articles that exposed the plans of BL Ltd management. In the of '77, reproduced tape recordings of a speech by Sir Kachare DODSOR. BL chairperson, in which then openly CommICHLs about oversed custoricis slandered trade unionists, and condoned bribery.

He was subsequently sacked. Later we attemp ted to publish extensive details of BL Ltd's internal finances contained in documents but were prevented from doing so by legal action.

Despite the outcry from senior trade unionleaders they have put forward no practical plans to fight BI Ltd's latest scheme The union leadership has crumbled under every other similar management attack.

With the information revealed by Socialist Challenge, rank and file BL Ltd workers will be in a much better position to 112il to defend their rights

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