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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

CRED WEEKLY

Red Weekly No. 106, 19 June 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 207 words

The scan: rw-no106-jun-19-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 12 of the scan

secretary of the NUR, declared that "if you are going to have a strike which should be effective...you have to shut down everything in the way of transport which might compete with the railways. If you are in a war you have to fight with both hands.' At a time when rail workers are in a war with a Government which is crawling on its belly before the bosses of industry and finance, these words have a burning relevance. If goods are shifted by road or canal they must be stopped. Dockers should black all internal cargos. Airport workers should ground any plane shifting cargo usually transported by rail. No additional bus or coach services should be allowed to run.

When Tory MPs demand that social security payments be withheld or cut for rail workers, the strike committees being set up should organise mass visits to the social security offices - as the miners did so success fully in 1972. And social security workers - many of whom will be inSUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

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