WORKER | IMGpapers 1976

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Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report)

come. No hint of the agenda or any resolutions to be voted on was received prior to the Assembly day itself. The platform then announced that because of the sheer size of the conference it would be impossible to take discussion on amendments to the resolution they had prepared!

Even so, the support fot the militants at the Assembly thought that the CP was proposing a real fight.

The refusal to put out a clear call for a one-day national strike on 26 May shows that the CP will do all that it can in the coming months to avoid any head-on clash with the Government's policies which might jeopardise their relations with the trade union and Labour 'lefts'. The building of broad-based Action Committees, through report back conferences to the areas, on the basis of clear class struggle policies is the way to prevent this happening. ALL OUT 26 MAY!

sive against the left.

Following the discovery of an MM circular 'to all fraction members' at the March delegate meeting, the right called a special meeting in April. The card vote was introduced, giving greater power to the big unions like the General & Municipal and the Transport & General, whose delegates were elected at district level. In May the Communists, a majority of the Council's executive, were excluded from offCommunists were also banned from standing in the ensuing elections.

The effect on policies was immediate and disastrous. In November 1927 the London Trades Council withdrew from the reception committee for the South Wales Hunger Marchers. In February 1928 it reBet- jected a motion against class-collaborationist industrial peace'. It disaffiliated from the National Unemployed Workers Committee Movement and withdrew from the First of May Committee.

Already in March 1927 the Communist Party described the London Trades Council in Preliminary Notes on the Need for a London Industrial Council as an appendage of the TUC General Council..... worse than useless to the London workers since behind the screen of a Workers' Council its activities are beneficial only to the employing class. PASSING