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EVEN the stony features of Tory 'Employment' Secretary How can they even pose as credible opponents of the Michelin strikers hi against the latest sec or tory proposals to undermine and destroy the unions as fighting organisations.
Every avenue must be explored between now and the TUC Congress for forcing an emergency resolution onto the agenda demanding immediate withdrawal from the talks with Tebbit.
And within each union the fight must be carried out winaraw parucuar ипод The SAS and the SBS kept the ship until Wednesday midday. At first they refused to say anything about what they were doing. The ship was on charter to the Ministry of Defence, they said (for •Fortress Falklands' operations), and what they did with it was their affair.
Since then they have stated that it was an anti-hijack exercise. The SAS and SBS were acting the role of terrorists who had seized the ship, and Kent police were sét the task of recapturing it. Some credibility is given to this story by GW dun untno tinnad tha halanco tWo vules uppeu me alauce in favour of talks at the TUC General Council - the union's biggest Divisional Council has tabled a motion to the next NEC calling on them to reverse their decision and adhere to previous Conference decisions not to talk to Tebbit. sons to talk to Leboile A similar struggle must be waged throughout the trade union movement, extending to the demand for TUC with-, drawal fram tha MSC. VTS and the report (in the Morning Star) that "Irate residents near the docks complained that their sleep was being disturbed by shooting and helicopters"
The National Union of Seamen press office told Socialist Organiser that the union no longer held to their first suspicions, that maybe the seizure was an attempt, or a practice, for clearing the nuclear waste which the Government is still unable to dump because of trade union boycott action by the NUS, the TGWU and the NUR. And legally the whole operation was unchallengeable because shipboard law gives the master of the vessel almost medieval powers over the crew.