Out Now
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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out early. The tracks are not run fast to make up for this time.
Stewards
When the Assembly Plant walked out Koche was pushed into calling a stewards' meeting, which in turn called a mass meeting. Stewards urged that a strike vote be put to this meeting: Instead Roche argued that the workers had a choice - 'stay in and fight, or go out indefinitely' In other words, he argued that it was possible to fight. without losing money. After the sell-out on the manning strikes, it is hardly surprising that a section of the meeting, particularly the paint shop, was now against strike action. And Roche's attitude tipped the scales.
On the vote, the meeting was evenly divided. The chairman deArticles on the stewards' movement, the public sector and the fight against cuts and privatisation, lessons from the NHS strike, and unions and the Labour Party. Polemics on the Socialist Workers' Party and the Communist Party. Features on the left and the Stalinist state 'un. ions' , and on workers' politics and national lib eration. From the arsenal of Marxism: Leon Trotsky on boom, crisis, and workers' 70p (plus 16p p&p) from 135, London N1 ODD OR WE STAY OUT NUPE WORkERS SOCiAliST REViEW