BACKBENC He's one of our new lads - just landed a plum job in the Department of beatana bocal e secure days the Tories have: * announced cuts. in public spending which will mean the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and endanger the health of hundreds of thousands of working people given the first reading to Tebbit's new anti-union legislation * allowed the hangers and loggers a grab at the return of capital punishment By the Editor leadership is still dithering TUC about whether collaborate with the Tories.
Ine rigal wing traut union leaders are ingly open in their act of betrayal. John Lyons, the leader or the power station engineers, is proposing to discuss with ebbit how strikes can be avoided in essential services - Tori code words for smashing the public SCLEVE unions.
Frank Chapple, of the een cans to talk to the Tories on proposes that the trade unions with the Labour Party and back the Alliance too.
These proposals will to the enemies of the lavour movelle. Backing should come for Arthur CYCl Scargill's intransigent stand against any dealings preparing industrial action tation with Thatcher.
That means fighting to remove the right wing 'fifth column' inside the ranks of the labour movement.
Unions In the trade unions the job of building broad lefts that can take on and defeat ine rignt wing has just begun.
In the Labour Party, it means fighting for the Heffer/Meacher ticket for the Labour leadership and theority oth the National the right Executive Committee.
The labour movement has been served a declaration of war by the Tories, it must act accordingly to remove its traitors cowards before they cause further damage. • Behind Lawson's cuts -• Defend the NHS - page OVER 500 people took part in a picket of the United States Embassy on 5 July. They were protesting at the perialist aggression against the revolutionary Nicaragua and Grenada and US backing for the regime Salvador.
The crumbling El Salvador army is desperate even direct US involvement, to crush the popular _ the MIN FOR The US Congress will be asked in the next few weeks to certify increased AMERICA Said. US America, continued imgovernments in in El for more US aid, and organisations in El Salvador.
special envoy to Centra Richard B Stone, made a special trip to Costa Rica this week in a propaganda stunt to counter op position in Congress He sought-negotiations with the FDR-FMLN around the Salvadorean elections due in December. The FDR-FMLN reject these phoney elections as a fraudulent claim for democracy. They refused to play Stone's little game and he went home empty handed The only negotiations that interes the FDR-FML concern meaningful steps to real democracy and freedom US backed repression in
Socialist Action 15 July 1983
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