By Harry Sloan

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Victory in POEU - see back page clined, the leaders of the labour movement gave her a victory by default.

Now - even while Thatcher lines up a cabinet more hardbitten and bloodthirsty than land ran Delore, win natenet men Lawson, Parkinson, and Rhodes Boyson brought in to axe everything in sight - we hear Terry Duffy and Labour's right wing again warning us against 'extra-Parliamentary action' Instead, these leaders would have the working class passively accept five more years' penal servitude.

They have not gone unchallenged. NUM president. Arthur Scargill and GLC leader Ken Livingstone have argued strongly inat ine working class must prepare mass action to defend itself against the Tory onslaught.

On this, they are absolutely right. Thatcher may have won solid support from the prosperous middle classes and in rural areas; but she has no mandate from the working class in Scotland, Wales, the North or t contrac whic CURLINO eering carefully a Crazy elector: the activities o create the illusio of England is an Toryism - but i hundreds of the Union and Labou out against the ready and able jobs, services, an‹ Many unemp unmoved by La ragged campaig he big industrial her electionAVL voided. al boundaries and f the SDP may in that the South unbroken sea of n the South, too, pusands of trade ir activists turned Tories and are to defend their 1 basic rights. ›loyed youth bour's limp and stayed in bed on June 9: but that gives Thatcher no. right to condemn them, and millions more, to five years' poverty on the dole.

The vast increase in the Tory majority in Parliament -obtained with less votes, and theoretically fixed for five years - shows beyond doubt the folly of hoping to defend workers' interests simply through the ballot box.

Thatcher has no mandate from the working class: we are not obliged to accept her dictates. Our class - whose labour is crucial to the whole economy - has the power to puncture the hot air balloon of Tory euphoria, and bring them down with a bump.

To do so we need to meet hard line class-war government with hard line class-war opposition - not just in Parliament, but right across the board.

Union leaders must stop hob-nobbing with the Tories and start fighting them. In the workplaces, the alarm must be sounded on union rights, on cuts, closures and We must build the base of support from which strikes, occupations, solidarity, action and trade union boycotts can be mounted. The trade union movement must reach out, organise and mobilise the youth on the dole. If we had done these things before, we could have won the The Tories best hope now - and that of the right wing - is that yesterday's militants, crushed by the election result, will give up the ghost.

But there is nowhere for us to run to: with our backs against the wall, we see the enemy approach. Forward, fighting, is the only way to go.

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EDITORIA no.136 June Page © Save Bell = 1123.00 = 1983MORE ELECTION MAiL!

IT'S LABOUR, JOHN - 4 - THE RECKLESS MANIACS WANT To BRiNG DOWN UNEMPLOTMENT, ENDTHE ARMS RACE, REViVE THE ECONOMY, ABOLISHMONKD BAITiNG -I TELL YOU, JOHN, I'M TEMPTED TO YOTE FORTHIS BUNCH YES, JOHN, I THiNK I'M CONVINCED...

I'M SORRYSiR.

THERE'S BEEN A TERRiBLE MiSTAKE - THAT ELECTiON LEAFLET WAS WRONGLY POSTED IN A MILITANT ENVELOPE- WE HOPE YOU UNDERSIAND - WE'LL HAVETO REDO IT OF COURSE. AHEM..

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