its allies in the trade union bureaucracy as well: the leadership of the Union, the Scottish TUC, and Len Murray of the British TUC. The trade union bureaucracy is not prepared to lead any kind of determined struggle against the Tory Government, and this rapidly leads them to take up an outright reac tonary stance when confrontations such as this break out despite their MUCUSEES.
Another step forward for rank-and-file unity was notched up in the strugple against the NIRC fine on the AUEW. The AUEW leadership also fears an all-out fight with the on the 12th.
An equally important development was the support of the strike by many workers not in the AUEW. Large numbers of building worker in London, Manchester and Birmingham struck OR LOU 5th, and many of the Glasgow factories that have announced their intention to join the Scottish strike on the 12th only a small proportion of their workforce in the AUEW. The campaign of the AUEW against the NIRC must be continued and extended to draw in other sections of workers. The way to do this has been shown by the succcasful moWITH THE "HE nof.
wages front. the done through a campaign in the NUM and the AUEW both to call for a national agreement on joint action between the union leaderships. and to organise, on a local level, Joint conferences, mass meetings, plana for action, that will bring the rank-and-file of the two unions together for the struggle.
It these two tasks are carned out. we will see the sort of working class unity that can smash the policies of the Tory Government and lay the basis for a general strike that will sound the death-knell of that day gave the fight against the NIRC a good booet.
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The rallies which took place in London, Liverpool and Glasgow last weekend, in solidarity with the resistance to the junta in Chile, showed the effect which the coup has had on the British working class movement, and the foct that Chile will continuc to be a focus for political action, In London, 8,000 marched from Speakers Comer, The trade union contingent included dozens of trades council and shop stewards committee banners, and groups of workers from every major union. The IMG mobilised 1,200 militants behind its banners, and made o powerful impact with its slogans of solidarity with the armed struggle, and demands for the blacking of trade with Chile. All of the speakers at Trafalger Square stressed the need to block the export of the naval vessels and wie too have been given a good bocat towards our target of 5300 for the November Fund Drive with a cheque for END from a reader in the USA, who tells us that we ane the best We wouldn't go quite thet far, but we do daim to have consistently put forward the nant steps necssary in the fight againet the NIAC, the Industrial Relatiom Act, and the Tory In particular, we have pointed out that the fight against the NIRC cannot be won through one-day strikee. The working class must follow through, by organising bigge and more sustained actions, striking out along the road of a fight to bring down the Tory And we need you to follow through. One cheque, or passing the target for one month, (won't solve our problems. We need bigger and more sustained donations if we are to exnd and improve our covarage. Make our good start this month even better, send in a lonation today - to: Red Winkly Fighting Fund, 182 Pantonville Road, London N.1.
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The IMG speaker Tarig Ali, iwho was somehow omitted in the Moming Star report of the demo, quoted Fidel Castro's statement that H every Chilean worker and peasant had been armed there would have been no coup, He called for soildar Ity with the growing armed struggle in Chile and criticised those groups which had chosen to stay out of the On Merseyside docks shop stewards have decided to ban the handling of any Chilean cargoes and in particul ar to prevent the shipment of the Hawker-Sidoley fighters now awaiting devery to the regime. This action gives a lead to the entire trade union movement. Solidarity with the Chilean resistance must be trans
publicity to their fears that the demonstration before it set out included representatives of