Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 150, 13 October 1983 · scan p. 7 · about 261 words

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PICKET lines have been formed outside a number of US airports its members on Continental in protest at the 50% cut in th Though a small band of scabs have continued to fly, uniform flight captains have been prominent on picket lines, discoveri a trade union awareness which they conspicuously lacked duri he Reagan administration's smashing of the Air Traffic Contr ALPA is levying all its members $134 a week to sustain Continental strikers on full pay. Other Continental unions lers' union PATCO three years ago.

less generous with strike benefits.

Meanwhile the rival Eastern Airlines act, demanding 15% wage cuts.

LOCAL 2101 • 28 It was a bleak day in the Treasury, too, where it was announced that the country's foreign reserves have droppe to less than $200 million — ka ing fallen by $441 million in September alone.

Foreign debts stand at $39 billion, and a $300 million repayment due on September 15 has not been paid.

Central Bank president Juli Gonzalez, however, was jaile e by a federal judge for 'treascr after he allegedly agreed to år renegotiation terms which we "damaging to Argentine sovereignty".

Clasped in the grip of the !! and Western banks, the Args! tine bourgeoisie can find no er escape from the growing militancy of its own working class But to chart their own way forward, Argentine workers must break from the bow grui nationalist delusions of the Peronist leaders of the trade union movement. The only an imperialist road in Argentina the road of socialist revolutior and a workers' government.

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