Ash is so bad that trains have to out oi service because the frame has buckled and the b longer shut. tage of staff results in no adever for drivers and guards. So e cancelled when railworkers on leave. Cancellations akdowns occur daily because ould have been replaced 15 h Rail has asked the es. soac. vul ul ans of blackmail to accept job ad cuts in conditions and serpolicy that we need for the ; has to start from the fact that - di service wnicn exists ocial needs — not to provide public.
(ONLIO OVCi British Rail should be in the hands of railworkers themselves the case there would be working conditions and hours and a reduction in fares.
Instead of that capitalists are being subsidised through penal interest rates and profits for private industry achieve all this left wing neeas lo bull in lne lau unions. organise informally against closures and redundancies, and for the democratisation of union structures in the NUR. But it is early days yet.
We need a shop steward system 01 representation and negotiation The Triple Alliance of rail, coal, and steel workers, will only become a what happens to If this were improved an organised are beginning 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 reality in organised solidarity in the fight against Tory closures.
This will not be organised by our nresent leadershin. It wil have to star at the bottom with the building of the new class struggle leadership. million innal journeys during, ibe Socialist Challenge 9 April 1981
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Both agreed that they had met with a surprisingly positive response Colin Aberdeen told us 'We were all very nervous at first but we tound tha people were not surprised to be knocked up by us. They seemed to accept that people who had strong political views should want to come to their homes.' Paul Hackney agreed 'Everybody nervous about going door to door but after doing one or two floors of the flats people became more : con fident. Nobody was hostile and we found people were interested talking politics on their doorstep.
Both supporters' groups had used the same approach. They simply turned up to the choser estates without prior warning. On hindsight, Colin thought this hadn't been a good idea: 'It was too sudGen. The best thing in a new area would be to use ola back copies of the to put through doors with a leaflet saying we'd back the following week' John, the Hackney Socialist Challenge sales organiser, said his group were planning to try this. They also plan to include a Tear -OIT strip their leaflet explaining how to receive legulal the paper. 'It's very quick. You can cover a very larg WILl number Asian and West Indian people had been attracted to the by the coverage of the Black People's Day of Action and the centre spread on Anwar Ditta.
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