* FREE SHREWS TWO! Weekly interested in achieving that sort of unity with the Labour and trade managed to do this. And because workers unity against the roling class, For them, it's more imporlant to get union lefts'. On Shrewshury they've these very people are not interested in proparing the struggle of the mass of The working class is tacing two major dreuts under this Labour Government ment, but want to bortle it up in Parliament and mere talk about changing the law and the face of the Home Secretary, the plekets remain firmly hehind locked doors Not only that. The employers and the state are encouraged by the ineffectiveness of the movement atlack at Art Castings, Wingrove and Kngers in Liverpool Intex in Manchester and now in the last weeks in Newcastle, where scaffolders who has been on strike for over 10 weeks nave bad their pickets smashed and are now awaiting trial under charges which include Section 5 of the Public Order Act -a criminal law in troduced to curb fascists in the "30s but only ever used against working class struggles What has the CP to say about this new "Shrewsbury 7 How will it singo the LCDTU to campaign in support of tre Eidon Square pickets? Perhaps the answer lies in the pages of the Mormag Ster in recent weeks which has had little or no obverage on this latest attack on democratic rights TASKS As intlation soars and unemployment goes over the million mark, the tasks of a body such as the LCDTU have never been clearer. Although dominared by the politics of the CP whith depend on clinging to the coar-tails of the 'lefts", the LCDTU is the most powerful rank and file body in the workers movement. If it adopted a programme of struggle for socialist measures against the Immediate problems facing the working class, it could give a lead to hundreds of thousands of workers.
On this page, Red Weekly publishes the sort of progranune we think would be adequate for the task of organising effective unity in the working class. The LODEU will either measure up to these casks or will write another pape in its inglorious history Sin Boyd
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