Building solidarity with the printworkers | Socialist Action 1983

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AS THE News International strike enters its twelfth week it is clear that only with the active support of other trade unionists brought to heel. Behind Murdoch stands the rest of the Fleet St barons and the Tory government. Behind the printworkers should stand the whole of organised labour movement.

It is this situation that printworkers •their allies have to change if the dispute is to be won. With the full backing of the labour movement, printers will gain the confidence to extend their action reverse the series of setbacks that are being inflicted upon them in the newspaper industry.

Central such solidarity Is understanding the lessons of the especially Ine alances vhich were built across the broad labout The mobilisation from the Yorkshire NUM on the April demonstration, by far the largest contingent outside OT The print unions, shows what can be achieved.

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Published by Cardinal Enterprises, PO Box 50, London N1. Printed by Laneriage bia. Uh, London Da will Rupert Murdoch be the shire pits have levies 1n support of the strikers. The example of the NUM should be taken up other particularly the TGWU and NUR, BUSdirectly involved in the dispute.

At the moment TGWU members employed by TNT are delivering the papers And if Murdoch is successful in transterring to road deliverv. there could leaders these unions must be forced to take more effective action than they have done so far. Actively building the mass pickets would be a start.

Similarly the Labour Party must be mobilised in out a years inland subscription an send you free one of these bo JUSTICE: The Miners Strike 1984-86 by the Campaign Group of Labour MPs On Atro American Halcoin y OR The Struggle is My Life by Nelson Mandela AT WAPPING Thursday May Ist 1986 Assemble Tower Hill from 8-pm

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