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If you agree with what we have to say, you can help. Become a supporter of the Socialist Organiser Alliance -groups are established in most large for more information, write at once get their way nor would a Labour government: SO workers throughout the car and components industry have to get together to draw up their own plans like the Lucas Aerospace workers did, to organise work sharing without loss of pay, to black transfers of work, to occupy to stop closures, and to link up with workers in Europe.

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A lot depends on the type of Labour government whether it is left or right. Hopefully a left Labour government would introduce a planned strategy for the economy.

In the meantime there's got to be a lot of discussion in the labour movement as to how these problems can be overcome, and then to take whatever steps are necessary, including blacking of work transfer and occupations if necessary Socialist Organiser is not just a We fight to organise workers struggle for a new leadership labour movement.

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¡CANTIERE NAVO LIVERNO Shipyard workers march through Livorno A government package of tax and price rises has provoked a movement developing towards a general strike. Harry Sloan reports.

IN THE biggest political movement since the mid1970s, millions of Italian workers have taken part in strikes, occupations, demonstrations and mass meetings in protest at a government package of tax and price increases.

Monday saw the second major stoppage in four days, as a joint action by all three trade union confederations spilled over beyond the planned two-hour workplace meetings into mass demonstrat ons, the blocking of motorways, stations and airports, and, in Milan, an attempted occupation of a police headquarters. In Naples, Alfa Romeo workers occupied the station for an hour. In Bologna a huge demonstration was supported by metalworkers, textile workers, and students. Milan workers. called for a nationwide general strike, while in Genoa workers are proposing to go it alone with a generalised stoppage on Thursday.

In Rome, metal workers have taken the lead - one of them telling a TV crew, "You keep on doing programmes on workers in Poland: how about workers in Italy?"

Nervous Franco Grisolia of the Italian Trotskyist group LOR told us that the mood and militancy of the workers was far in advance of the guarded and nervous response of the leaders of the three main trade union confederations - and spilltives in the government, though the more right wing coalition party, the Social Democrats, seeking to exploit the widespread unpopularity of the governDiscussing plans for a general strike in Genoa, union official from all three Italian confederations were concerned that the proposed mass demonstration should not get out of hand.

A metalworkers' leader suggested the answer: the march should be headed by a musical band - and should carry flowers to be handed out to women!

ment and its policies, has police headquarters.

But workers' anger has been fuelled by the pressures of 16.3% inflation, while talks have now been dragging on for a year between bosses and union bureaucrats aimed at cutting back the measure of protection to wage levels given by the 'scala mobile' inflation escalator clause.

Inflation

On the other side, the Italian ruling class confronts the worst inflation rate among the industrialised countries, and a colossal budget deficit which compels it to take stern action against the working class despite the weakness of successive governments.

A four-hour national TR 'guerilla' stoppages but of concerted, united, all-out general strike action to bring down the heavily discredited Christian Democrats.

Demands The fight must be for a government of workers' parties, while the working class - employed and unemployed alike - needs to