Photo: JOHN HARRIS disrupting ment. 66 believes • OUR organisation thai astem Winter put four million people on the scrap heap in Britain is rotten and must be replaced by a society which puts social need before private proll.
Such a sociely would be run on the principles of worker democracy, pul ling power into the nands of th over.
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against Nutallrall abominalions which socialism in such countries as Poland 4s for the press allegations thes are ridiculous.
We are not in tavour of the Paul Mackney AS PRESIDENT of Birmingham Trades Council, representing quarter of a million trade unionists, I condemn the suggestion by Dr Hawkins, the director of the West Midlands CBI that employers should 'be on their guard when recruiting new workers'.
People should be apto do a job or to be trainfor job; LICH political and trade union beliefs should not be s The unacceptable face of BL management THE SOCIALIST LEAGUE has been attacked and villified in the press as an organisation 'hell-bent' on British industry and the union move.
We asked STEVE POTTER, acting national secretary of the Socialist League, to explain briefly what the aims of his organisation really are.
disruption of industry. On Contrar we that the anarchy of production for profit that characterise economy today should be replaced by planned hased workers control over nationalised industry.
We helieve that unions will crucial role in the building such planned the economy and we reject the charge too that we are out Io disrupt the unions We support the unions against the assaults vormat Tebbitt others He also the struggle of working consideration.
It is a sorry state of affairs when the regional director of the CBI implies that firms should politically vet applicants to exclude active trade unionists, socialists and Marxists. course the practice is not new, but with LITe growing tion of computer technology there is a real danger of totalitarianism at work.
There are already a Irr Centr America.
think that socialist revolution in it country will be in the i dustrial workers. but women, black people an vOuln We intern tionalists who beliere th oppresu another will never he ir itself. It's for this rear for the withdrawal an SUDDON the developed between movement and it revolutionar of Ireland.
Il is for these belit that the Tories employers pre Male us . But we are con dent that there thousands of people "t agree wan us and will join Is in the battle for socialism.
number of outfits thi computer files o socialists provid firms with blacklists.
People rightly cOI demn these sort of pra tices when they occur Czechoslovakia as an il fringement of freedoms expressio and association.
We don't want to s them here have a right to work. would be happy this with Hawkins.
Keith PEOPLE should hav the right to jo whatever their politics views. The trade unio leadership must take thi up.
They thei members are at risk fron th beginning of witc th Berufsverbot Wes MY FEAR is that th Cowley issue will now b used as an tightening up on job ap plications throughout in dustry. It's tantamous to denying the civil an rights Leyland workers Phil Holt (Post Office Engineering Union Executive, persona capacity)
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