AS 21 February approaches the Scottish labour movement is mobilising its forces to make sure demonstration against unemployment will be Scotland's biggest ever.
The marches and demonstrations have now been joined by an against unemployment.
At the Lee Leisure factory in garment Greenock nearly women have barricaded themselves in the factory, sleeping on floors and benches, in an occupation against the threatened closure ot the vant in April.
The occupation will boost fightback against job losses in an area with an unemployment rate already at the alarming figure of 15.2 per cent. It should also act cias aring to offi cials of the Garment Workers Union, which repre sents the women.
Although the union has called for job sharing the firm's Irish factories, it has not backed this with any call for action.
The union's area official has more or less given on Lee Leisure. Referring to the-shamanagement)
(management) advised us that such a Challenge that the Glasgow •idli was not dossioe would reluctantly have to accept the company's decision to close.' The workforce has other plans, announcing: 'We will stay here intil we get a prope solution even It I means staying inWomen workers in Greenock have occupied for jobs definitely.' week in Paisley, a town livino the shadow of 5,000 job losses, over a thousand people marched against sackings and redundancies.
On Saturday, despite the worst weather SOLIDARITY union leaders are threatening a new wave of strikes following the Supreme Court's decision to reject legal registration for Rural Solidarity. peasants support the new union.
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Among were delegations Leyland Bathgate, PetrolGUN Grangemouth, firefighters, GMWU, and local MPs. The demonstrators were Up to a million poor Glasgow against the Tories badge. Order your copy from: The Other 328 Upper St, London N1 urged by Neil Kinnock MP make the February demonstration one that could inspire working peole to fight back' Dennis Canavan, MP for East Stirling, called for industrial ac tion to get rid of the Tories. He pointed ou government pad governments Monday's mittee meeting.
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Fi ne new premier is former defence minister General Jarulzelski, army hardliner. Kania is rumoured to be preparing emergency powers legislation to, halt the country's unrest The Polish workers and peasants are conti nuing their dramatic struggle against corruption The strikes in the Jelenia Gora region centred on a private clinic to party members, and in Bielsko Biala the workers won the dismissal of currupt local officials.
Corruption Some 67 Communist Party officials had already been expelled from the party for corruption before the party's 'clean-up' campaign launched last November. One of those purged was former building minister Glazur who built himself a private 4-storey house with £250,000 of state funds * Affiliate to the European casterr Solidarity Campaign at 10 Park Drive, London NW11. * Organise within the unions and the Labour Partv to win donations to the EESC solidarity equipment the Polish workes ang butc solidarity campaign in Britain *Support the resolution passed by Birmingham South district AUEW to raise funds to send a smal orin. ting press to Solidarit in . Send dona tions to: Polish appeal, c/o 137 Digbeth, Birm ingham B5 6DR *Send resolutions through union bodies union leadership to invite speakers from Solidarity to national Union Conterences this summer Already the General s Municipal Workers' This new crisis follows the purge at last central comPrime minister Pinkowski became the third premier to bite the dust in recent months in a move to strengthen CP The monopoly of wielded by Poland's Communist Parti increasingly threat the ICW Worker powel, lic Solidarity union movement. A test of strength between these two powers is inevitable.
Invasion US State Department officials have claimed that a Soviet invasion of ПОЙ 'inevitable'. Polish workers may soon neea tne Tullest support from the labour movement in unis country in their struggle for workers' power.
INSIDE: How the Polish workers can move forward full workers' power, a Fourth Internalonal resolution; the two men jostling to Kania as CP leader; and workers democracy In Belko-Biala - see page Il.
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