YOKOHAMA DOCKERS SHOW THE WAY

‘I agree with this pamphlet. But how can we be sure that workers in other countries will take similar action to us?

These were the words of a Glasgow convener c last March, when he read the Newsletter pamphlet ‘Black the H-Bomb and the Rocket Bases!

Last Sunday Japanese dockers at Yokohama refused to unload from the Akima Maru ten — And it shows the urgent need to take the CamOerlikon guided missiles bought from Switzerland for research.

Their action followed picketing by other workers and by members of organizations opposed . 180 Clapham High Street, London, S.W. 4.

Vol. 2, No. 65 ONLY RANK-AND-FILE MOVEMENT CAN CHANGE TU C _ O VER a thousand delegates to the 90th Trades Union Congress will meet in Bourtiemouth next month with the supposed aim of discussing what policies the trade unions should pursue in the coming year on behalf of their members.

Great prominence will be given by the newspapers and television commentators ¢ ‘clashes’ between Left and Right, and many will feel—mistakenly, in. my opinion—that the real interests of the working class are being carefully studied and plans laid for the workers’ betterment.

Some Left-wing newspapers, not quite convinced that all is as it should be, from time to time appeal to the TUC to really co-ordinate trade union struggles for better conditions. wh t Others assure. us that, come what may, , the Left wi will do its best to reverse the decisions of the Right, and therefore the ‘ TUC should be watched carefully as a barometer of social ‘watt be mat hes oe the TUC is important. On paper at least, eight er course i . . million trade unionists are represented there. :

Given a policy that started from the assumption that the capitalist system is rotten and that the working class should combine its strength, not only to_win immediate advances, but also to overthrow capitalism, then the TUC would indeed be the mightiest arm that Labour could devise.”

However if any change is to made in the TUC militants must state clearly:

WHAT the TUC is now; wae it gakes action that is against the interests of the work. ; i i .

T we must do to change it The TUC is-controiled by Right-wing reformism. Its leaders . . pursue a policy of stabilizing capitalism. It acts as the disorganizer of genuine working-class struggle.

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to nuclear weapons.

It shows how right were those. members of the = Labour Party who, at last year’s Brighton conference, sponsored and supported the Norwood resolution, which called for the mobilization of __ the full force-of the international working-class movement against nuclear weapons. -paign for Nuclear Disarmament into British factories and pits, behind the slogan ‘Black the Bomb’. For the British workers will respond as the Yokohama dockers responded. "Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper ;

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