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As BA workers prepare to strike...
ORGANISE TOGETHER
TO FIGHT THE TORIES!
S
O NOW WE KNOW.
The Tories are in and Nick Clegg
and the Lib Dems have joined
Cameron in government.
A government with no real mandate to
govern has been cobbled together. We have
to be very clear what this government will
do, it will cut.
What David Cameron and Clegg have
put together is a coalition for the markets
and the bankers.
The Tories and Lib Dems are set to make
the biggest attack on public services for a
generation.
Labour’s defeat wasn’t as great as many
expected.
Many working class people came out to
vote for Labour to keep the Tories out.
But what a tragedy that after 13 years in
office Labour had so demoralised its own
supporters that the Tories could get in.
That was the price Brown paid for the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for MP’s
sleaze and New Labour’s support for the
bankers who led us to the present economic
crisis.
Attack
We can be certain that the Tories and Lib
Dems will have to make cuts. They are
committed to making us pay for the crisis.
The closure of hospitals and schools and
the slashing of hundreds of thousands of
public sector jobs will be the real price of
“balancing the books”.
This isn’t about the “national interest”,
it’s about making workers pay.
Just look at who is backing the attack on
public services.
Mervyn King, the Govenor of the Bank
of England is supporting Cameron arguing
it’s “imperative that our own fiscal problems
are dealt with sooner rather than later.”
That means big cuts and soon.
Across Europe we’re seeing the same
process.
At its worse, in Greece, there is an
enormous assault on public spending and
a viscous attack on the living standards of
working people.
The EU “bail out” of the Greek economy
is at the price of more and more devastating
cuts.
These attacks have been met by
resistance with general strikes and mass
picket line.
We need to build permanent networks
of resistance to pull together the anti-cuts
fights and build solidarity.
On Saturday 22nd May the Right to
Work Conference is a first step in doing
this.
The battle lines are being drawn. The
coalition government is for savage cuts.
But they have no mandate to make them.
We have to say no to the attacks on
working people and build the resistance.
We have to learn the lessons from the
fight in Greece. If we are under attack we
BA cabin crew during their last strike have to fight back!
That means that we have to come
protests in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. together to campaign and strike against the
We are going to need to respond in the cuts.
same way here.
Next week BA cabin crew begin the first
five days of up to 20 days of strike action
against anti union boss Willie Walsh.
Walsh is attempting to smash the union
at BA with activists suspended and sacked
and with the company refusing serious
negotiations.
Unite has called action for May
18-22 inclusive, May 24-28 inclusive,
May 30-June 3 inclusive and June 5-9
inclusive.
This will be a crucial test of strength
for the bosses and the Tories, and for the
unions’ ability to resist the oncoming
assault.
If their side has a coalition for the bankers
we need a coalition of resistance around the
cabin crew strikers at British Airways.
Everyone has to get behind this fight,
collecting for the strikers, passing messages
of support, and where possible visiting the
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