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MG march, its inadequate slogans and policy and the failure to link in with those struggles of the class going on. The weeks following the failure of the Tribunites' resolution for the recall of the Labour Party conference are really going to sort out those in the labour movement who are prepared to act from those who are merely prepared to talk. are now blocked.

The parliamentary left believed that with its so-called majority on the NEC it could waltz into the NEC and get a recall conference with no troub le - although what they intended to do at such a conference God only knows, given Mikardo's TV statement that he didn't even want a resolution at it. Now the parliamentary lefts have learnt a few political facts of life - not that they're likely to learn much from them. time the chips are down, at the present moment, Harold Wilson has the union leaderships nicely lined up behind him. OVERTURN THE LEADERSHIP From now on the going gets tough. Skulking and manoeuvring around the 'corridors of power" and relying on friendly union bureaucrats have got nowhere. The only place to turn now, and the place the Tribunites would have turned in the first place if they had any real stomach for a fight, is the rank and file of the labour movement in a mass campaign to overturn the decisions and policies of the leadership. meetings, demonstrations, industrial action against the employers, and open organisation of forces in the labour movement - of the type for which the parliamentary lefts have no taste whatever.

The real ways to force the recall of the labour movement conferences are steadily opening up, however. Slowly but surely the industrial struggle is turning up after the demoralising defeats of the summer. es, the struggle at Linwood, the fight at Commonwealth Smelting in Avonmouth, all begin to show the way forward. Massive solidarity with all such struggles, coupled with the demand for the recall of the labour movement conferences, is the first step in the way forward.

The easy ways to fight They learnt that any This means a campaign mass The steel strik-