Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 73, 18 February 1982 · scan pp. 4–5 · about 537 words

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TURKEY БІДАТИ САМРНОТ Turkey Solidarity Campaign: Box BM 5965, London WC1N 3XX. So far the Bolivian Workers' Support Fund has collected £ 120 towards its target of £500.

The 48 hour miners' strike against the devaluation of 76% imposed on the dictatorship by the IMF betokens further mobilisations which will need our help. The target of £500 will meet the living costs of two full-time union organisers for a year.

Priority should be given to getting motions of support and donations from Labour Party and union branches. Individual contributions are also needed: 10 BY SF. 54 Studley Rd. London F- 41 only through vicious oppression and the murder thousands of militants. And the capitalists who the apartheid government protects have maintained their profits only at the expense of the suffering and hardship of millions of black workers.

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The fall in the gold price has hit South African capitalists heavily, exposing them to the full effects ot the world capitalist recession. They are forced to look for even more wavs of tearing mort wealth trom i aur enlack workers c0 ca05 10038 .--1 Even though almost every strike is illegal, hundreds of thousands of workers have taken action over the last period, on issues like wages, victimisations, trade union recognition, bonuses, overtime, defence of jobs, and price increases. Time and again, strikes have been attacked not only through the police. but also through mass victimisations.

But such attacks are being met by increased resistance. Strikers at the British owned subsidiaries Dunlop Flooring and? Wilson Rowntree have raised the call for total blacking in thrir contin?u... • Barai against from many employers; despite the constant threat of state action: and with very little preparation. It shows the massive readiness, which must extend far deeper into the class than even those hundreds of thousands who took action.

The reaction of many big capitalists to the threat of a mass political strike was an attempt to hijack the movement. C'apitalists who rely on the viciousness of the apartheid regime to force profits out of workers claimed that they too oppposed the state security lans.

Bosses who immediate!! turn to the police to -mash any strike were loud ment which fights for the real needs of all the oppressed and exploited.

We must multiply many times over our efforts to build solidarity action in support of the struggles of black workers. There is no better way to protest the death of Neil Aggett than to build maximum possible support for the struggle of the workers whose cause he was serving.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called for a week's blacking of all goods to and from South Africa to protest the death: We must fight for the TUC to follow this lead.

Run Todd (TGWU) and other trade union officials who stood on the picket line could immediately add massive strength to br CORRECTION: The Fc and Canning Union is n as stated in last wee SO, affiliated to FOSAT It is unaffiliated.

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Wor a tews SCOTLAND: Stan Crooke reports on a second tour by Piotr Kozlowski and Marek Garztecki. "gål Socialist Organiser, Thursday 1982

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