YOUNG BACK RENAULT STRIKE

SEVERAL thousand workers struck for four on Thursday at the giant Boulogne-Billancourt Renault plant, near Paris.

Union leaders are now demanding the immediate opening of negotiations on their demands. These include:

• Shorter hours • Increased basic rates of pay • Removal of anti-strike conditions on bonus earnings • Retirement at 60 • Monthly payment of wages.

The majority of those supporting the strike were younger workers.

Delegation

• At a meeting of 3,000 strikers in the factory's central hall, on the Isle Sequin, officials of the two trade union federations-the Confédération Generale de Travail and the Confédération Fran'Strike n LONDON firemen will be on 'emergency calls only' from 9 a.m. on Monday morning following a 1,000 strong meeting at Tower Hill on Thursday night.

The men, whose slogan is "Undermanned, underpaid— that's the London fire brigade', are demanding an accommodation allowance in the region of £5 10s.

The meeting was absolutely hostile to the London borough council's offer of a house loan at the present 8} per cent bank rate.

Continuous calls came from the floor of the meeting for an all-out strike.

Palestinian commando leaders.

President Helou of Lebanon said that he could not go to former editor of the paigned for a socialist alternative. Our policies are: Hands off the Unions!

Sack the Wilson leadership!

• Build a socialist alternative!

• Oppose the Common Market!

The big issue here is not the size of the vote.

Working-class victory depends on the building of an alternative force based on principles, and this is the appeal of the Young Socialists.

I should like to thank and commend the members of the Young Socialists for their untiring and principled struggle, both in this election campaign and in the years leading up to it.

They have set an entirely new example in political campaigning in Britain.

RENAULT