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factories. We felt that to include them might get bad publicity."

In all, the four factories had 4,200 jobs when in January the management announced a redundancy programme of 1,900, calling for volunteers to leave.

When the company later announced the complete closure they would be selecting 190 compulsory redundancies. The unions (AUEW and TASS) dispute these figures and are fighting the occupation on the basis of all 650 jobs at Milton being under fire.

The workforce was halt and half men and women, but proportionately more women have left While the right wing in the TUC shamelessly twist and manoeuvre to force through their joint 'social contract election platform with Labour's right wing, the left wingers and in particular the three Communist Party members on the TUC are forced to trot out lame excuses for their refusal to fight.

Sheet Metal workers' leader George Guy, a prominent CP member, was stung into writing a letter of explanation to the Stalinist 'Morning Star in reply to an editorial critical of his role. He accuses his comrades of "a complete lack of understanding of what working with the broad left means."

Apparently it means that if the broad left wants to support the right wing, CP members must go along with them, because otherwise "our broad left colleagues might well have seen us as people they no longer wished to support on other issues." By such means have the old Staliniststyle "broad lefts" traditionally been turned into impotent movements incapable of fighting the right wing - but simply giving careerists of various stripes a legup into the higher ranks of the union bureaucracy.

The newly emerging non-Stalinist broad lefts in various unions should note this wretched example, and firmly reject the course of compromise with the bureaucracy if they are to achiev‹ their objectives in terms of new policies and trade union democracy.

dispute official, and Peter Atack, convenor of the dyeing firm of Charles Busfield and Co. blacked Aire Valley goods.

The union was then taken to court by Atlantic Yarns - a firm giving the same address as Aire Valley Yarns - seeking an injunction against secondary blacking and damages.

The dispute continues. Messages of solidarity and donations should be sent to L. Ali, 34 Dirkhill St., Bradford 7.

Turkey Solidarity Campaign: BM Box 5965, London WC1 3XX. Affiliation fee: national organisa-e tions £25, district organisations/TCs £10, local organisations/TU branches £5, individuals £3.

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