Don't just march, organise
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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Other branches of the march are startin THE PEOPLE'S Saturday, 23rd.
Wednesday 27th castle.
The People's March 81 roused hundreds of thousands across the country against unemployment. After two further years of Tory devastation, this March should do the same thing on'a much greater scale.
The question is, what will be built from it. Pleas and petitions won't shift the Tories. To win the right to work, we need not only protests but also organised force.
The unemployed can become a force only by organising and making links with employed workers. The main ways this can be done are:
* Recruiting the unemployed into unions.' Most union leaderships have built great obstacles to this. The main exception is the TGWU Region 6 (North-West), where active unemployed branches like the 6/612 and 6/88 exist.
* Organising unemployed workers' groups or associations that can be linked up with each other, and with the unemployed inside the unions, through the National Unemployed Workers' Movement:
* Organising unemployed centres run by the unemployed themselves in liaison with the local labour movement. Trades Councils and Labour Parties should take the initiative on this, and in some areas have done so.
Organising unemployed March for Jobs sets out from Glasgow this on from Keighley and Saturday 30th from I ewmarch for res
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Martin By