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ALTERNATIVE [taken from Intercontinental Press, On June 23-24, over 1,000 dele. gates from a number of unions met in Manchester at a 'Defend Our Unions' conference organised by The conference was unanimous in ceclaring what amounted iu a declaration of war on Thatcher's government for its proposed anti-union legislation. Rejecting any idea of TUC talks with the Tories. delegates demanded an action programme calling for an end to all cuts, incomes policies and productivity deals, and for the 35-hour To back up the call, conference decided to lobby the TUC on September 5 and to unite future activities with that of the Liaison Committees for the Defence of CODE OF PRACTICE More important, delegate after delegate-basing themselves on the experience of recent disputes at Sandersons, Roneo Vickers (Kirkby), Dunlop Speke-supported the idea of a 'code of practice' to defend basic union principles in the period ahead. These 1 No crossing of picket lines; 2 For the defence of the 100% 3 For full rank-and-file decision making by traditional democratic procedures-no enforced 4 Strikes to be run by elected strike committees; 5 All appeals for blacking and financial assistance for disputes to be carried out; 6 Support calls made by strike committees for mass sympathy 7 No settlement of disputes without full report-backs to, and decision-making by, the memWhile declaring war on the Tories, clique. however, delegates showi?;. sympathy with the preser: leaders. As Avtal Joul (Bir Qualcass, Smethwick) pur :: in the course of this struggle *= topple the Thatcher gorer.mar mes me re prepares : organise s: thatcherer sents not just soula ier::= the real workers of this counts:
His feelings were share! : many other delegates i attacked Callaghan for his warring against union members not to use their 'industrial power' against the Tories to defend living standards and jobs. No one wanted to repia:= Thatcher with another pro-capita!• ist Callaghan government.
While seeing the need to strug gle for a new leadership in the labour movement, however-one based on the real needs and interests of working people-there was very little discussion on how this could concretely be achieved MANOEUVERS The organisers of the conference, themselves unable to provide a clear way forward, helped stifle such a discussion by manoeuvring to prevent amendments to resolutions being put. These manoeuvers clearly worried a number of delegates who quite rightly associate such practices with the union bureaucrats they criticise.
While the conference decisions -if taken up in the labour movement-can be a basis for preparing to fight back against the Tory attacks, they still don't solve the 64,000 dollar question: how can we ensure that we don't have a simple re-run of the 1974-79 experience? How can we ensure that removing Thatcher will not merely saddle us with another pro-capitalist Labour government which will only serve to alienate thousands more Labour voters?
The only answer to that is, of course, being in the Labour Party and fighting there for socialist policies against the Callaghan
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