Right | Socialist Action 1983

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the print, where technology threatens, the NGA decision by the General Council opens up the way to direct busting. The Tories' aim is reduce membership to perhaps only five to six million members twenty nive per cent of the working population. It is the biggest threat the unions have faced since the defeat of the General Strike. There is no doubt This perspective for reversing the whole right wing trend inside the trade unions is today a minority within ine trade unions there is no doubt of that.

be defeated if that minoritv is organised to lead the fight back against the Tories at every level It needs quite different type of organisation to that which left trade needs to establish • a campaign to win ine bailol on allilla tion to the Labour Party locally. Every trade union branch, every broad left needs to campaign to win the vote on affiliation and Ine coseo sudo Coupled with the support for every individual • struggle which takes place these are the single most important issues facing •traut union and labour movement in 1984.

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Socialist Action 6 January 1954