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The Socialists for a Labour Victory campaign, launched last month, has now done its first mailing to Constituency Labour A letter from campaign secretaries Mandy Moore and Andy Harris calls on CLPs to affiliate, and says that SLV will be publishing leaflets for CLPs to use in campaigning.

SLV will also produce suggestions for election activity, and try to help link the Labour Party with struggles like Greenham Common and protests like the People's March for Jobs. And it is preparing a statement for MPs and Labour candidates to sign, committing them against any Labour/Alliance coalition.

Affiliation to SLV is open not only to CLPs but also to trade union bodies, Labour Party women's sections, etc. It costs £5 Affiliations to. or copies of the mailing from SLY. 28 The British Telecoms unions' campaign to fight the privatisation of BT is beginning to escalate. In London, POEU blacking of maintenance work which initially covered the Bank of England, has been spread to cover all government buildings in the London area except for Buckingham Palace, just in case the Corgis catch flu and need an ambulance.

UCW telephone operators refused to scab on the POEU, when telephone fault control was withdrawn from Whitehall.

Meanwhile, as part of the reorganisation of BT, in preparation for privatisation, Swansea POEU branch have been told by management that they intend to pay off 80 workers over and above the expected job wastage in the current financial year which has just begun. This is just under 10% of the Swansea engineering workforce. A similar notification has been given to Cardiff branch. The Swansea branch Parties. for organisations, £3 for individuals. Lane, London N8. • Unilateral nuclear disarmament and removal of all nuclear bases in Britain • Nationalise the top 25 companies, return social spending to 1977 levels in real terms. 35 hour week, withdrawal from the EEC, expansion of NHS, education, house-building. Renationalisation with compensation only on grounds of proven immediately called an overtime ban with life and limb cover only.

The overtime ban may spread to other parts of Wales as further management intentions are revealed.

The POEU NEC and full time officers are currently touring the country to hold meetings on members' problems. These meetings will provide an ideal opportunity for demands from the rank and file. for more information on the plans to oppose privatisation and for stepping up the fight.

The recent press release by POEU general secretary, Brian Stanley, concerning the London industrial action, does not ofter much hope.

He makes it clear that the pies of the mailing from SLY, 28 Middle officially sanctioned action is to register opposition to the government's plans, but does not make any point of the action being called to defeat the proposed Bill, which is now in its final parliamentary stages.

This has been the official strategy throughout the campaign, basing all attempts to stop the B1l purely in Parliament.

The POEU Broad Left have consistently argued for a campaign spanning across Parliament, to industrial action to stop the Bill,, raising the demand that the workers of BT must fight the Bill in order to stop it and the subsequent huge job losses which may reach 100,000.

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