tional Marxist Group will be marching on the giant jobs lobby planned for 26 November. It is these workers, who are showing in practice how to fight for jobs, who should be heading the demonstration and the platform at the lobby.
Meanwhile support for the lobby is snowballing. With last week's unemployment figures showing one in twenty adults registered as wholly unemployed, trades councils in East Anglia, Hampshire, Nottingham and Wigan have added their support to the call for the lobby. Seven hundred stewards at a conference organised by the Clyde district of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, Glasgow Trades Council and the UCS Co-ordinating Committee voted to support the lobby. UCS stewards and Scottish miners will be paying the cost of two trains down from Glasgow. The general purposes committee of the 70,000 strong London district of NALGO is recommending that the district committee support the lobby.
Elsewhere workers have been on the march for jobs. Last Wednesday 2,000 workers at Plessey's Sunderland plant downed tools and marched through the city in protest against 400 redundancies. In London, 800 chanting workers from the British Leyiand AEC Southall plant marched against sackings. While hundreds of London buses are lying idle for lack of parts and repairs, many AEC workers are threatened with lay**-****** the lobby:
been elected. for 26 November will serve no purpose whatsoever.
But despite this massive and continuing response, the main forces behind the demonstration - sections of the Labour left and the Communist Party - have failed to put the TUC General Council in its place for trying to sabotage the lobby with its circular telling trades councils not to support it. It was with abject servility towards the traitors of the TUC that the Morning Star of 26 October reported a weekend meeting of the North-West regional council of the TUC, which initiated "Several delegates pointed out that arrangements had progressed too far for any reversal of the decision, with coaches and trains booked and many delegates having already Presumably the Morning Star would have supported the cancellation of the lobby if the TUC General Council had intervened against it earlier. Why doesn't the Star demand that its old TUC 'left' friends, jones and Scanlon, publicly guaranteed; announce their support for the lobby? "There was some resentment over the suggestion by the TUC that the lobby would be anti-Labour Government in character and against TUC policy, the report continues. Well comrades, if the lobby isn't against the policies and leadership of the Labour Government, supported by the TUC - which has no intention of waging a fight against unemployment - then the mobilisation Mick Gosling Delegates pointed out that the demands to be put to the ******** The 100,000 rubber workers in Britain, France and Italy who struck and protested last Wednesday against redundancies caused by the policies of the multi-national firms - and also expressed their solidarity with rubber workers in Spain -are showing the way forward to an international working clas fight against unemployment.