Despite all the ruling class preparations, the working class can win the coming massive struggles, provided a decisive fight is waged. The only forces which can solve the present crisis-the forces of the working class and its allies-are coming more and more into open the employers. It was to be expected that sections of the working class such as the miners, against Phase 3, But sections of workers with no long history of militant struggle, for engineers, have also taken up the fight. In fact, if we add up the torces which already are, or shortly will be, involved in the struggle against the government and against Phase 3, is in an overwhelmingly more favourable position than the employers and their state. Over five million workers have wage claims coming up in the months ahead. The miners in 1972 showed what even 260,000 can do in a determined struggle. The Glasgow firemen hav Phase 3. Five million workers, not to mention the many millions more who would be through Phase 3, pur an end to the Tory government and open up the road to socialism. Certainly the employers and the state are beefing up their preparations for resistance to Pase 3-by preparing special police antipicket and anti-strike squads, by preparing mined working cLass struggles. The speed with which the government moved to relcase the Pentonville Five last summer shows this conclusivelywithin itself, with sections laming from sup-
Red Weekly1973Red Weekly No. 30, 1973
Victory possible
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