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T
he Tories and their ex-mates in
UKIP are playing the oldest trick in
the book. Its called divide and rule.
While working class people experience
the longest squeeze on living standards
since the 1860s they want us to blame
migrants for the problems we face.
Tory defence minister Michael Fallon
talked this week about British towns
being swamped and under siege by
migrants.
But it was the bankers and politicians
that caused the economic crisis, not
migrants. Its the Tories, not migrants who
are shutting our hospitals, privatising our
schools and cutting our pay.
Te Tories are running scared of
UKIP, who could win another MP in the
Rochester by-election. So they are talking
tough on immigration to win votes.
We shouldnt fall for these tricks. If we
turn on each other its the Tories, UKIP
and the bosses who benet. Divided we
are weak. United we have the potential to
turn things around.

Striking together
On 13 October hundreds of thousands
of health workers, black and white, struck
across England. Te workers who keep
our NHS running come from all over the
world. Tey are part of the solution not
part of the problem.
Now NHS workers in Wales will
strike on 10 November and there could
be more strikes by health workers against
poverty pay later in November.
On Friday 31 October reghters in
England begin a 96 hour strike to defend
their pensions. University lecturers start
a marking boycott on 6 November to
defend their pensions too.
And local government workers are
voting on whether to accept or reject new
pay oers.
Tere is an urgent need to ght because
times are getting tougher. Tis week we
saw that the gender pay gap is widening
with women falling further behind under
Tory austerity.
We cant rely on Labours leaders to
change things even if they are elected.
Tey intend to stick to Tory spending

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Scapegoating 29/10/14
plans and keep the public sector pay cap.
Disgracefully, theyve even gone along
with Tory and UKIP scapegoating of
migrants.
While we build for more strike action
we need a debate about the need for
a working class political alternative. If
Labour wont ght for us then we need a
party on the left that will.
Rejected
It was very disappointing union
leaders pulled back from big strikes
on 14 October after a proposal from
the Labour lead Local Government
Association. Tis proposal was a re-
packaged version of the 1 percent oer
unions had rejected already.
Its great to see that in Unison,
the union representing the most local
government workers, there is a big
campaign to get the strikes back on. Many
Scottish local government workers are
currently campaigning against a similarly
lousy oer.
We need a campaign of industrial
action that hits the Tories hard and stops
the attacks.
Te big NHS and civil service strikes
and the TUC & STUC protests in mid
October showed that could happen.
Workers are willing to ght. Just look
at the strikes by Unison members at Care
UK in Doncaster, UCU members at
Lambeth College and Unite members at St
Mungos housing charity. GMB members
at recycling centres in Sheeld are set to
go on all out strike from this Saturday.
But if we are going to make sure our
union leaders call the action we need
we need to get organised. Te Unite the
Resistance conference on Saturday 15
November will bring together activists
from across Britain to debate the way
forward, build solidarity, and a working
class response to divide and rule. Come
along and join in.
DONT LET TORIES
AND UKIP DIVIDE US
Striking together
& organising to win
Saturday
15 November,
12 - 5pm
@ Bloomsbury
Central Baptist
Church, 235
Shaf tesbury Avenue,
London WC2H 8EP
UNITE THE RESISTANCE CONFERENCE
Sessions include
Strategies to win:
How do we beat the
austerity agenda?
The ght against
zero hours contracts
and organising the
unorganised
Migrant workers:
part of the union,
part of the solution
The law and
multinationals:
Do workers still
have the power to
beat the bosses?
For more info and to book go to uniteresist.org
Speakers include
Mags Dalton & Roger
Hutt Care UK strikers
John McDonnell MP
Ian Hodson BFAWU
national president
Peter Pinkney
RMT president
Fast food strikers
from the US
Karen Howell
Support Stafford
Hospital campaign
Matt Wrack
FBU general secretary
Paula Peters
Disabled People
Against the Cuts
Ian Lawrence
NAPO general
secretary
Barbara Pokryszka
Unite, hotel worker
organiser