DN! CORTH To Callaghan.
Unemployment.
THE BUCK- policies. In the first round of the Labour leadership elections, Red Weekly took the position that it was correct to support a vote for Benn - just! We warned that Benn was a bureaucrat looking for a future alliance with the trade union leadership to catapult him But at the moment the forces that stand behind Benn, particularly in the Constituency Parties, are opposed to the policies of the Government; and as such, a vote for Benn would have been a vote against the policies of the On this basis Red Weekly supported a vote for Benn although.his programme refused to criticise the major planks of Government policy and refused to argue that the Labour Party as a whole and not a parliamentary clique should elect its leader. It is for the same reason that Red Weekly is for abstaining in a run-off fight between Callaghan and Foot, even though the overwhelming majority of the parliamentary 'left' and the left inside the Constituency Parties will support him against the arch right-winger Foot is the chief link in the rotten alliance between the trade union bureaucracy and the Labour Cabinet. Whereas Benn, in typically bureaucratic fashion, attempts to avoid a clash with the Government's policies while letting it be known with a nod and a wink that he doesn't exactly agree with them, Foot has been the central figure in forging these policies with the trade union bureaucrats. He was the hammer put up to smash the left at the Labour Party Conference. Even in the middle of the leadership election campaign, he issued a renewed call for 18 months wage restraint; and last weekend he refused to meet a delegation from the Assembly on Behind Foot stand. the majority of those so-called lefts' who refused to vote against the £6 limit or even join their fellow Tribunites in abstaining on the social expenditure cuts. A vote for Foot would be a vote for the present policies of the Government and of those trade union bureaucrats like Jones, Scanlon and Basnett who are the central defenders of the Government's line. They are today the chief policemen of the labour movement. The only way forward for the working class is in direct struggle against them and their co-thinker Foot. Foot is not in any way opposed to the Government's policies. Foot is the Government's to the leadership of the Labour Party.