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created in this country.
No one who has gone through the vartous struggles aguinst the Tory Coveriment over the past three years would have expected anything other than what Phuse 3 really offers mote of the same. Few who have had to live in the grip of the tightening vice created by the Tory pay laws on the one hand and spiralling prices on the other will doubt the need to smash these new pay restrictions However there are certain quarters of the worken movement where such facts are sloor to sink in. Engineer's President Hugh Scanion has responded lo the Tories' slap in the face by offering to rejoin the talks hetween the TUC and the Government, Such a move would be a double treachery: sombre visage of NIRC judge Sir John Donaldson, who proceeds to club the 'non-co-operating' skull of the AUEW with a £100,000 This sudden resurfacing of the long-forgotten NIRC has come as a timely reminder of the real purpose of all Tory policy. If we look under the flowery words and legal jargon in which Phase 3 has been dressed up by the Tories and the capitalist press, we find the same nasty reality that the NIRC represents: both are part-and-parcel of the Tories' drive to attack the trade union movement and force the working class to bear the burden of the crisis which capitalism has pay, and disintegrating secial services is to peddle a lie and sow massive demoralisation. It is the best way to ensure that the Tories win the next election.
The only way forward is to unite the struggles of all those millions of workers who hase grievancos against the Tory Government and its pay policy. The leadership for this must come from rank-and-file militants.
Rank end-file bodies must be ser up in every area to prepare the fight: to organise against the talks, coordinate workers going into struggle, organise the broadest possible solidarity with such workers, take steps for the def ence of pickets. The formula for vicfory which every trade undonist must work to translate into practice is: build the broadest possible unity in ection.
For example, militars in the engineering and mining industries should start work immediately to build a national, joint stoke of the AUEW and the NUM as soot us the new year begins. Joint AUEW-NUM branch meetings, and meetings of stewards" and pit representatives delegates on 3 incal, regional and national level should be cullvened to plan struggle. Other militants could start Immediately to make practical preparations for the offensive: plan solid. arity strikes and demonstrations, transport and accomodation for flying pickets, propaganda and actions to win support among other groups who suffer from Tory policies.
A massive strike movement against Phase 3 could win the organised solid arity of the whole working class and would encourage millions of other workers to bring forward their claims aguinst the bosses and against the Tories, It would rapidly turn into a general strike which could bring down the Tory Ge vernment and win a massive victory for the working class.
The aim of all trade union militants at this time must be to unify and generaliss all the partial struggles of the working class into a general strike to bring down the Tory Government That is the only way forward for the workers" movement.
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A spectre is haunting the Tory Government - the spectre of the Industrial Relations Court. Like a scene from a Punch-and-Judy show, Heath's smiling face, fresh from propounding the "generosity" of the Tories" new Phase 3 plans, has been pushed aside by the