delusion that it can strike up a new partnership with the Tory government. The reality is the complete opposite. The TUC's proposed document is only going to encourage Thatcher to go further. What is worse is that working people will pay for this policy by more job losses, less welfare, less democratic rights and by the erosion of their real At the end of the process the assault on the unions will be even worse than before.
The left wing in the unions has to have a clear goal. This infamous document has to be rejected. The left wing on the central council has to go back among their membership and why Strategy for the Future has to be thrown out.
The most urgent task durterence is to throw out this "strategy'. have to win the ballots on the closed shop and the Labour Party affiliation - those are the real tasks for the unions. One down, one to go! the that will gladden the heart of any Tory Minister of • Strategy for the future wants the unions to influence governments to advance welfare employment rights rather than use so-called bargain. ing muscle to promote pay deals for their own members. This gives any government the right to insist that the welfare state is paid for out of future pay rises.
• The document talks about unions proving 'their fitness to play a continuing role in the future but accepts that this can only be done in collaboration with Tories the employers.
Socialist Action ACTiON SociAlist 27 January 1984 as Central America the Middle East. To back up these policies a major section of the US ruling class wants to be in a posilon lo make a credible threat of, or even win, nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
This is why the United States is developing tirs strike' weapons such as the On the field of economic competition, however, the West Euro capitalist countries are engaged in a ruthless struggle with the United Stales High US interest rates, the colossal US Federal Budget defecit, United States larrils on special steels, a bitter farm war. All these US move have hit the West Euro-