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Tower Hamlets council officials are reported to be 'seriously considering' another call to the government for troops to do strikers' work in the borough.

A council spokesman said: 'Urgent consideration is being given today to the new situation that has arisen in the borough'.

Nearly all the borough's 2,000 council manual workers struck indefinitely on Monday against the use of troops to clear rubbish over the weekend.

International Socialism He was replying to discussion at a meeting on productivity deals called by Wandsworth I support the call for a national strike on December 8; he said, 'but I know that a one-day strike is not enough to smash the laws. "The real fight will come on not registering unions and on the fining of strikers after the laws are passed.

Earlier he had referred to two strategies in relation to productivity deals—one before their implementation and the other after.

Since eight million workers are now covered by such agreements, he explained, the second strategy was the important one.

•Boomerang In a speech which never once even mentioned the Tory government, Cliff contended that productivity bargains, as an attack on working class, had "boomeranged'.

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Late yesterday afternoon Coal Board was reported to have made unconfirmed offer to bring 10s across-the-board rise forward to November l and to drop the six-month production guarantee.

The new offer will go to a pithead ballot. 180b Claphar about the anti-union legislation is madness, Road, said roup on Monday night.

in other parts of the country had developed as a result of such agreements being introduced Workers are more unite s a consequence,' declares Cliff.

His proposals for trade unionists included rank-and-file conferences, greater communication i between workers in different industries and the re-building of the shop stewards' movement as in 1916-1918!

The building of a revolutionary party was a long struggle in the next ten to 15 years, he explained.

The road PAGE ONE protest channels is, in fact, a continuation of its support for the Stalinists during the anti-White Paper campaign in 1969.

This led to the July promise with Wilson and, inexorably, the present retreat of the TUC and the Stalinist leaders before the Toriés.

It testifies to the complete bankruptcy of state capitalism and reveals in a glaring way something that the Trotskyists have long pointed Those groups who refuse to defend in a principled way the most decisive conquest of the world working class, the property relations of the Soviet Union, cannot defend its less important conquests, the trade unions. To betray. the defence of the Soviet Union against imperialism is to sacrifice the trade unions to the Tory counter-revolution.

That is the logic of Mr Cliff's method and outlook.

The same moral applies to the Institute for Workers' Control which, for all its anti-Tory pretentions, tries to substitute non-class 'industrial democracy' for the socialist dictatorship of the working class and the. expropriation of the capitalist class.

It is a scarcely-veiled attempt to impose on the trade unions the reactionary, mystic and anti-communist philosophy of its ex-patron and ex-Honorary President, the Earl Russell OM FRS. That is why it can welcome the TUC stand on the anti-union laws and glibly ignore its manifest failure to call a one-day nationwide stoppage against the Bill and to lead any effective campaign against it. The IWC conference resolution does not call anywhere for a general strike against the Tories, but instead talks vaguely about the TUC calling a 'massive rally and demonstration' in London on the eve of the TUC's recall conference which should be brought forward to 'coincide with the early parliament* the Bill in It 1S easy to see how the reformism of the Institute complements the verbose radicalism of the state capitalists.

The former want to lead the trade unions up the blind alley of 'workers' control' divorced from power while the latter, in alliance with the Stalinists, try to dissipate the revolutionary potential of the working class in localized and unco-ordinated protest actions. While we support December 8 as a step, and only a step, towards raising militancy against the anti-union laws, we warn workers that any attempt to pose December 8 as a substitute for a real campaign along the lines indicated must be resisted. We urge all militant trade unionists not to fall for the trap set by these reformist • groups, but to concentrate instead on the campaign to force the executives of the trade unions to call, through the TUC, a one-day general strike against the Tory government.

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