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branch: parliamentary obstruction t *supporting the April 29 hinder the Bill becomi organise a one-day general ing Committee in Defence *demanding that the - How Tebbit's Bill affec TUC breaks all links with the you; Women against Tebb Tories, and the Labour Party Page 15 - Mobilising Cor Atlantic to defend the islanders - who will be Bri for trade union leaders to continue to serve as lonely We should ask ourselves if it makes sense any mor token figures on the boards of nationalised industries charged under new statutes passed by the Conservat ive dominated House of Commons with the task o selling off profitable public assets and closing dow the Labour movement that the TUC should contin to nominate six members of the National Fconom Development Council, at which the Chancello outlines his own monetarist strategy and seeks by policies that undermine the whole role of trad disengage from institutions which consistently wo against the interests of those we represent would h an electric effect upon the conduct of public affa we disengage would be stripped of the artific veneer of consensus legitimacy upon which they rel Empire. other problems', he said". or openly supporting the Tories.

Rica! Withdraw the fleet!

democracy against bigotry? overthrow Thatcher and Galtieri.

replied. THIS Tuesday, April 20, the Tories pushed through a 'guillotine' on the Parliamentary debate on the Tebbit spat at black dockworkers below. anti-union Bill.

The Bill is now likely to have its third reading immediately after the May Day holiday.

Time is therefore very short. The TUC is still doing nothing about the Tebbit Bill except collecting money for legal costs. The only action called by the official leadership of the labour movement is a lobby of Parliament on April 29, organised by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

Unions in Manchester and Sheffield who planned to lobby on April 26 against the cuts have switched to the 29th to make a united event. It is up to the Left now to make this lobby as big, as loud, and as angry as possible.

if we cannot generate a serious campaign to stop the Bill becoming law, then any fight against the Bill once law will be half-crippled from the start.

The Tories' guillotine should prompt emergency resolutions in cry trade union and Labour Party lobby, law, *calling for the TUC to strike on the third reading of Trade Union Rights. the Bill, as a preparation for more extended action, commits itself to maximum mittee appeal.

unprofitable parts of the business.

unionism.

for their public support.

Bill *supporting the Mobili SEE INSIDE: Centre pag We must question whether it is in the interests A conscious decision by the Labour movement TONY BEN