[Paper of the Socialist Organiser Alliance No.100 SEPTEMBER…]
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Paper of the Socialist Organiser Alliance No.100 SEPTEMBER 161982 (Claimants and strikers 10p) 25p FOR THE first time since 1926 the TUC has called on all its members to strike in support of a particular section of workers.
Despite the fact that the TUC's call for a day of action on September 22 is not a clear-cut call for a general strike, and that many of the TUC barons want anything but a general strike, the 22nd is a big step forward in the health pay campaign and a potentially massive blow to the Tories' union-bashing laws.
Already some key sections of workers have taken the strike call to be what it should be - a 24 hour general strike. As we go to press, the miners are committed to 24 hour strike action, as are SOGAT 82, the seamen, and the firemen. The NGA is almost certain to call all-out one-day action. The Scottish TUC has also come out for a complete 24 hour strike.
At the TUC conference, Arthur Scargill said that Ce main job was to get everyone out on the 22nd, and he is right. We have to use the time between now t now/10p and the 22md to make sure that the stoppage is as Health Workers for the Full Clai 78 High Street, Act should be created to mobilise for the 22nc, continue solidarity work afterwards - and to prepare for an immediate industrial response if an employer tries to use the courts against workers who strike on the 22nd.
Despite all attempts to wheedle round the fact, the solidarity strikes on the 22nd are unlawful under Prior's Law. They are, whether the TUC leaders like it or not, not just industrial action on a wages issue, but a political challenge to the Tory government and indeed to the ruling-class state machine.
They are an assertion that working class standards of justice - which tell us that active support for the health workers' claim is a basic duty - rank higher than the laws legislated and enforced by the ruling class.
It is nonsense to believe that the campaign against Tory anti-union laws can be a diversion from the health pay campaign — or that either can be separațed from the fight to drive the Tories from office The way to win on all counts is the same -make the challenge to the Tories :
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