SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Militancy rises North and South

Socialist Action No. 7, 28 April 1983 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 242 words

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LAST WEEK saw another example of the strike-breaking role of the British trade union bureaucracy in the North with General and Municipal officials scabbing on the pay strike of Belfast bus workers.

Bus drivers, like so many workers in the North, are divided into two separate unions, the militant Dublin-based the right-wing led London-based GMBATU.

The Citybus workers set the pace with a week-long strike in support of their 10 per cent wage claim. But their hopes of a united response from all bus workers in the city GMBATU officials refused to call a membership meeting and vetoed proposals to join the Frustraied ATGWL roled to accept management's sis per Mexertile cares inore factories in the 55°£ 1T10 EDUTIE IT mines North rad south it is He KIT SOU religion not partition that causes the main division of the Irish working class.

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Thatcher and her whip round to such ventures as Che Falklands campaign and the war in Northern I think you are labouring under misapprehension The plan, I believe, ist to make the organisers of demonstrations the wages of the police 4 who...

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Socialist Action 29 April 1983

← North to be strike-free zone?Victory →

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