... and on the road of struggle they have found the unions united against them · The Address which we are publishing below represents an effort by the final participants in the General Inter-professional Assembly (AG-IP) of the Gare de l’Est in Paris to address the international working class whose living conditions have been strongly attacked in the same way as the French workers.

(Image - Workers demonstrate outside UAW headquarters against the union) · The Fight against United Autoworkers (UAW ) and General Motors (GM) · On October 16 workers from GM's Lake Orion assembly plant, from UAW Local 5960, started a picket at the United Auto Workers headquarters, “Solidarity House”.

(As we go to press the struggles in France show no sign of dying down. We cannot do full justice to all that is going on but we can give a flavour of what is happening behind the headlines in this leaflet from Toulouse. It shows that at least some workers recognise the fact that ritual responses are not enough against an intractable and increasingly desperate class enemy.

It is now three years since the capitalist speculative bubble burst. At the time many revolutionaries assumed that the consequences of this new stage in the crisis would be the revival of extensive working class resistance to a further erosion in living standards. This was the thinking (for example) behind the Midlands Discussion Forum invitation to revolutionary organisations to attend a common...