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OF SOLIDARIN Independent for Southern Africa Solidarity:

Available (at 90p plus 20p post) c/o SO, 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

90p Bob Fine stop the employers.

Look at the problem from the employers view. If you know your shop stewards are incapable of taking industrial action against your redundancy programme 'then you can roll-up the shop floor organisation like a carpet and place it in the dustbin. This is what has happened in the 4,000 plant closures in the North West over the past four years.

These are lessons which the GLC itself has also failed to learn. What's the point of spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on Greater London Enterprise: Boards when the average worker has no confidence that his trade union can-be effective in defending his/her jeb?

The GLC's cash should be redirected to sponsoring industrial struggle against plant closure.

We need to return to the basic principles of left wing trade unionism that brought the labur movement into exisA national demonstration in support of the 'Newham 8' Asian youths facing conspiracy charges after defending themselves against attack, has been called for September 24 in East Ham.

The trial is due to be held at Snaresbrook Crown Court October 24.

There will be a picket every Monday, and labour movement bodies should organise now for maximum support.

Send invitations for speak ers, or resolutions of support to Newham 8 Defence Campaign, c/o PO Box 273, London E7 9JN.

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Socialist Organiser no. 142, August 4 1983 Page 6 A CENTRAL component of Reagan's arrogant show of strength is the alarming political impotence of the America workers movement.

Appallingly i was at a trade union conference — the convention of' the International Longshoremen's • Association, in Florida - that Reagan made his most blood curdling threats against Nicaragua.

And on July 19 Reagan's IN A new exercise in intimidation, the Reagan administration has issued a blunt warning to Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan regime to halt its military support to the rebel forces of ex-President Goukoni Oueddi in Chad.

Weight was added to this warning by an express shipment of $10 million in arms and military equipment to the government forces of President Hissene Habre, the chosen stooge of French and American imperialism in the central African country.

And on board the aircraft Geoff alert, having deliberately violated Libyan airspace last month in a show of force.

In 1981, a similar show of strength led to the shooting down of Libyan jets by US Tomcat fighters over the Libyan Gulf.

Meanwhile Reagan's efforts. in Chad come as a supplement to the French airlift of tons of arms, ammunition and other equipment ordered in Chad.

The American-backed Mobutu dictatorship in Zaire has sent 250 paratroopers and promised up to 2,000 troops to assist Habre, and further backing is forthcoming from Sudan, Egypt, and Gaddafi's new-found brother' King Hassan of Morocco.

The events in Chad underline above all the new determination of US imperialism to hold back any further encroachments on the authority of imperialist rule - even when, as in this instance,

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