country.
At Leyland Vehicles a lunch-time mass meeting of 2000 workers heard the ex-convenor Len Brindle call for a Labour government after the general election had been called for 9 June.
Again the next day at the Horwich rail works their convenor Denis Green spoke about the political nature of the march. As more and more workers get involved with the march it helps the dead hand of the TUC approach.
The TUC leaders see it as a moral gesture, which is supposed to influence 'all parties' and "any government', not a nass political struggle ming to sweep the Tories out of office.
Alain Krivine, French Trotskyist, leader of student revolt 1968 on how to beat the Right in France Helen John, speaker from Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp on defeating the missiles in 83 John McAnulty, Peoples Democracy councillor from Belfast on getting Britain out of Ireland Peoples Marchers from the '83 Jobs March And speakers from the Police Bill campaign streets.
The previous Tuesday in Chorley rumours had swept through the march that the TUČ were think. ing about calling it off because of the election. They knew that once an election was called the non-party, non-political approach of the organisers was a dead letter.
They could hardly be consistent with their line and invite the Tories and the SDP/Liberal Alliance onto the rally platforms which would turn the whole thing into a joke.
rally from At every Leyland to Stockport Labour MPs called for a Labour government.
Of course a lot of us know the record of the last Labour government on unemployment and we tic anti-Tory rally.
Every major Labour rally should have a speaker from the march, not just as window dressing but so that they can demand action and support. They should insist Labour supports all workers fighting redundancy. They should raise the need to throw back the threats of privitisation and rationalisation and end the wasteful concentration of productive resources in the arms industry.
marchers' meeting a demand on the first point. It also wanted regular marchers' meetings and regional delegation coordinators this happens.
On Friday at the Brinnington Labour Club. nerry, a young wollan marcher from Manchester rushed forward to speak but the marshalls tried to stop her speaking. To a great round of applause she said:
'I am on this march as a Greenham Common Margaret Thatcher is a woman. It's true the ruling class. The working class are oppressed and working class women are particularly oppressed.' Kerry pointed out the Greenham women have been leading the fight ack against Thatcher. A ie said 'I never want hear anyone get up on a platform again and say it's women who have brought this country to where it is now. In fact it's women who are leading us out of it. YORKSHIRE 8 HJMBERSIDE ON T
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