IMGpapers 1980–83

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

COMBINED NUR & CONFEDERATED HORWICH WORKS BRITISH RAIL ENCINFERING LTD

Socialist Challenge No. 249, 11 June 1982 · p. 14 of the scan · 170 words

The scan: sc-no249.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

10 HORWICH workers ran relay to London on the night of 2/3 June to publicise the campaign to stop British Rail closures of their engineering workshop. They delivered a petition of thousands of signatures, calling for the workshop to be kept open, to No 10 Downing Street. The Horwich Action Committee has produced a pamphlet which explains what is happening to the rail industry, paring British Rail to other European systems and outlining how to fight the Messages of support, donations and orders of the pamphlet can be sent to: Joint Action wew node, norwica made out to 'Horwich loco works joint action committee.

If they don't do this we could find ourselves on against poor advertisement indeed Tor socalsul. Whether in power or not, GLC coun cillors ought to be supporting workers in struggle -if they don't they'll have no chance of defeating the right wingers, and we will be entitled to ask what use : having them on the ULl al all remembered that the GLC

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