Civil service leaders: GIMMICKS BUT NO FIGHT

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If you like Socialist Organiser, think it's doing a good job, but realise that it can't possibly do enough unless you Fill in the form below and send it to: Socialist Organiser Stephen Corbishley AT A FULL delegate meeting of the Council of Civil Service Unions on July 2nd, the union marked time. The motion for all-out strike from the CPSA was defeated by 20 votes to 43; a motion from the IRSF to continue with sefective action but to meet again on July 14th was carried 43 to 20.

Now the union leaders are manoeuvring harder than ever to extricate themseives from the dispute.

The national union leaders should be fighting c/o 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

I want more informationO/l Organiser supporter• Name Address CLP to raise the morale of the rank and file with a clear strategy to beat Thatcher: all-out action, or at least an all-out indefinite strike in ports and airports, backed up with mass pickets.

But instead. they are going for gestures and gimmicks. The IRSF leadership had issued an instruction to all its members in tax collection not to bank any cheques from 1st July: but when management then threatened to suspend 400 Ikst members in Manchester, the leadership backed down and instrucPd...... TU. ted those members to bank cheques.

CPSA and SCPS leaders have put a blacking on giro blanks for Department of Employment offices, calling out some members on strike to prevent the issue of these giros to local offices. Apparently they aim to provoke suspensions. This strategy, if it is a strategy at all, is not trusted by the activists in local offices, who fear a bureaucratic manoeuvre to sell them out if the fight gets too tough.

And now the right wing in CPSA are pushing for another referendum on the question of unilateral all-out action or giving in. They calculate the vote will go for giving in, and then they can blame the members for the result.

The rank and file must maintain the fight and attempt to build a movement for all-oat action. The national meeting of lay Council of Civil Service Unions delegates that was called on Saturday Sth July was a disappointment, and the recall meeting in Leeds on July 11th needs to be better supported — or the bureaucrats will get their way.

Support from other workers and the TUC is also vital. A defeat would be a serious blow to civil service trade union organisation — and for the whole trade union movement. GO TRADE I Credentials: £2.5C LCC, 9 Poland St London W1 July 18t Central Ha

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