IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 202, 18 June 1981 · p. 2 of the scan · 305 words

The scan: sc-no202.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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amount labour to be wages that will be allowed.

Saving the SD1 means stopping these attacks. The plant has to become a focus for the rest of the labour movement, and this will only happen if the workers in our plant take militant action to defend their jobs.

Оссиру With the such act facing closure, action can mean only one thing - an occupation.

The first task will be to physically prevent the company transferring the work Cowley. unions there have taken a position of boycotting the SD1's work, but this will mean nothing unless take up the fight.

company claims that closing the SD1 will save f8m a year, but it refuses give detailed figures. We believe the real figure is much lower.

have to demand that the company's books Shi, but on the whole of are openea, not simply or Although the company financed, publiciy owned and BL has never revealed its plan. The company is too important for Socialist Challenge Solutions to the crisis demand national political action and a programme to be implemented at the government anu by the working class.

le labour leaders are. Lung anti-Tory rhetoric and short on politics. In particular, they avoid taking steps for an all-out confrontation the ones. 1 ney preier lo wait for the next election.

That will come too late to save millions of jobs. The fight has to start now. The mood in the working class has changed, and the potential for an fight against unemployment is growing. Focus An occupation in BL would be a major focus for that growing mood of resistance and it would stimulate similar action elsewhere.

the union leaders give support to the fightback against unemployment that millions of working class people are now anxious to see. 18 Juné 1981 " Page 2" MIKE Photos:

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