arguing for the AlterEconomic Strategy. It won't solve all our problems but it's a minimum.
All this debate should take place under the umnrea rigal every person to work. ine government should be made redundant, not the workers.
How will the march be organised?
There will be a maximum of s00 on the march. Three regional councils of the are in volved the NorthWest Midlands, Trades cutieiis aRe Being, west. South-east Region. contacted and we want broad-based SUDOUL L committees set up. There are leatlets. petitions and collection sheets ready to go out.
As the march passes through Illa Ul collies we hope the local supcommittees will DULL organise big reception marches and festival type events.
When the march starts in Liverpool on 1 May we want to have a traditional Day demonstration, with full support from outside Liverpool. wnen we arrive in London we will be put up by the black community in Southall. And wel would like to have a really massive demonand stallon lally. although this has been finalised.
A number of Labour MPs are supporting and IS STRENGTH sponsoring marchers, and some will be marching with us.
My own view is that the climb down by the Tories over the miners has shown people the way if they do move en masse. And this government does have to be routed out as quickly rive in the capital on Friday 29 May.
ine kegional Labour rarty m London Glasgow and Liverpool.
kick out the Tories.
the marchers at the end of May.
cils administering any more Tory cuts.
Tories.
as THERE should be a massive demonstration and rally in London to greet the marchers from Liverpool and Sheffield when they arThis proposal from the London divisional council of the Public Employees' Union has gone forward to tion on 29 May. The sal mur aaly, brousty vac. the proposal means taking industrial acunion backing, has shown it can mobilise over 200,000 people for the unemployment marches in Now the London labour movement should show its strength in the fight against unemployment and to The TUC week of action at the beginning of April and the election campaign to return a Labour Greatel London Council should lead to mass action to greet Such a demonstration called by the Labour Party could also help to lay the basis to stop Labour counThe Liverpool-London march must begin to unite the labour movement in mass action against the There is a great deal of unevenness in the fight Now organise!
tions.
chers, including local demonstrations.
at the end of May. jobs lost. another 20,000 jobs are to go in BL.
Stockport | Macclesfield Congleton Stoke on Trent Stafford Cannock Wolverhampton i Walsall • Get your trades council and Labour Party to set up support committees open to delegations from all labour movement bodies, in. cluding black, women and youth organisa• Such support committees should organise the broadest possible solidarity with the marEvents should be planned before, during and after the march has passed through your area, up to the final national event in London • Get your trade union to nominate and sponsor a marcher, and ask your trades council or district committee to endorse her or him.
against redundancies. We have seen the victory of the miners. But we have also seen tens of thousands of Michael Edwardes has just announced that "The miners showed the way' must be the message Rugby • Northampton Bedford # Letchworth Hemel Hempstead Watford Wembley London May 29/30/31 that comes out of this march. They rejected the Tories' argument that there is only a future for ing maustral action tions of workers who are taking action.
as the policy making process. That movement was organised by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Party and the Rank and File Mobilising Committee Tories.
action on 29 May can begin to change that at least regional strike action in London and the South-East on that day?
rates and rent increases) and by vicars? 'profitable' pits and fought for no job loss and no They showed that the only way to defeat the Tories and defend jobs and living standards is by takThe Labour Party should now join with those seiThe left wing in the party has taken important steps to democratise ihe election of the leader as well But there is no such left wing openly campaigning in the unions for a fightback on jobs and against the Fighting in the Labour Party and the unions for Is the Labour Party prepared to give a lead to the growing number of workers in its ranks and call for Or are the marchers from Newcastle, Sheffield and Liverpool going to be insulted by a reception lec by a handful of 'civic dignitaries' (most of whom w1: have just pushed through another round of cuts and Socialist. Challenge 12 March 1981 Page
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