Netherlands | Socialist Action 1983

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Belgium FOR a year and a half now the Belgian working class been strike struggles against the austerity measures of the Martens government. Unemployment in Belgium is running at 13 per cent, the AS in Belgium, public sector major struggles public sector 500,000 have their wages public levels.

Immediately a federation.

strikes developed transport strikes whole public sector.

decision of the union engaged real Belgian been laid.

the fight against austerity in Holland has been led by the workers. Out of workforce of four million, 700,000 are workers, and another pegged to Last October a fight developed around a proposal to cut public sector wages by 3.5 per cent.

series of rotating among rail workers. These were followed up by Rotterdam Amsterdam. and then bv strikes in the Eventually the strikes were ended by a series of court injunctions, and the leaderships to out -comply with them. But the cutback in public sector pay was limited to 0.5 per defeat but not catastrophic one. The basis for a conti- ched nuing fightback against austerity had

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Socialist Action 20 April 1984 THE CAMP AT Greenham Common is still there -