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trial action continue. elected. but it will be rushed through another letter had been deliverLabour Victory, 28 Middle Lane, London No. privatisation of BT.

The London City branch, one of the branches taking industrial action, sent a letter to the may 12 Executive meeting recommending that the indne·uy The BT Bill has now fallen -time to ose!

acialists for a Euston the Tories During the previous fortnight of bad publicity. Despite protestations by the Westminster branch, the branch involved in the Whitehall selective action, the National Executive called off that action in favour of selective action elsewhere.

Westminster branch has since circulated the country asking branches to give them support, and enclosing photocopies of Foot's letter.

So the calling off of the selective action was to be expected The leadership have used industrial action solely as protest aimed at the general public, and have seen the return of a Labour government as the only possible way to stop privatisation.

The Broad Left has argued for mobilising the rank and file, but has never counterposed this to using Parliament.

99.9% of the activists in POEU will be out working workers in BT will not disappear.

POEU workers had to fight for a shorter working week the last time Labour were in power. The CPSA had to fight for their wage increase under Labour.

m Tagemencreasing drive tile increased profits, and the introduction of new technology at breakneck speed mean that workers in BT face difficult problems in the immediate future. The return of a Labour government alone will not solve them.

Impact

If the Tories are re-elected, the right wing leadership may throw in the towel as they see no way of forcing Thatcher to retreat. Cosy deals such as the newly hatched National Economic Assessment can be stitched up with Labour in power, but not with Thatcher.

I the Tones are re-elected, demoralisation may be spread leadership with a fully developed set of policies. The membership will not fight unless they have a goal to fight for.

Rejection

The supporters of the Broad Lefts of all BT unions need to develop and fight throughout the Unions for a workers' plan for the industry.

Policies such as a sliding scale for shortening the working week with no loss of pay to fight the threat to jobs; a sliding scale to increase wages in line with inflation; a working class price index; and workers' control of industry need to be adapted to BT for BT workers. A workers plan for the industry must be worked ' out and presented intelligently and concretely.

We must also link up with workers in other industries for a united working class response to the crisis facing not only workers in BT but workers everywhere. caught !

IN THE rush for the election, don't forget this year's Labour Party conference.

The deadline for resolutions is July 8. Normally wards would discuss them in June. But now most regular June ward meetings will be cancelled.

Make sure your ward organises a special meeting in June to discuss resolutions ir time to go through the GC fo the conference schedule.

The last Socialist Organiser delegate meeting decided to back model resolutions from the Labour Committee on Ireland, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (its resolution on the 'Greenwich amendment' and the constitutional amendment to clause 9), an‹ the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights. There will also be a SO model resolution on incomes policy.

Also: the closing date for payment of affiliation fees is June 10. Make sure your | CLP treasurer doesn't miss Lit, or you lose your vote!

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¿beral Behind the "terribly nice and civilised" front - "the sharpened knives of a far from liberal middle class anxic 'Here we are again, Happy as can be, All good pals and Jolly good company!' Those terribly nice and civilised Social Democratic People and their lovely Liberal friends have got together a frightfully nice manifesto, with something for absolutely everyone, haven't they?

Well no, actually, they haven't: but the two Davids, Roy, Bill and Shirley are going to do their best to win the soft' right vote of the horse-owning, professional middle classes, together with a few worn-out or confused former Labourites and faint-hearted Tories.

It all sounds terrifically moderate and well directed. The Alliance manifesto promises a government that will turn its back on 'dogma and bitterness' act in the best marriage guidance tradition to 'bring people TGWU TOP TONI CUTSI There are all kinds of suggesto get at ine inroars or ine working sophisticated and refined class The milking of the NHS by the under their proposed system

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