date was set for a conference trades council delegates and shop stewards in the city. DELETED Only one thing was deleted from the programme of action decided at the Assembly - the building of a local broad-based action committee. In other words, the stage was set for a day of protest and no ongoing activity on the question of unemployment except at the say-so of the Labour lefts and their Communist Party fellow travellers.
But these moves have not gone through without opposition in Sheffield. Trades Council delegate Ron Thompson put forward a motion from his Woodseats branch of the AUEW welcoming the guide to action from the Assembly, particularly those sections referring to the need for local organisation and action. The motion called for a one-day stoppage, rejection of the reactionary nationalist ploy of import ership of demands for a special Labour Party Conference is the starting point for an important national conference against the cuts this weekend The conference has been organised by Labour Against the Housing Cuts. Writing in the Chartist newspaper, LAHC secretary Ted Knight explains why they called it:
'The developing pattern of public spending cuts put into operation. and those projected by Denis Healey, made it clear that housing could no longer be seen in isolation. Housing, education, health, social services and public transport are all under attack. The living standards of every working class family are threatened!.
Support has come from a number of Constituency Labour Parties and trades councils. We in Selly Oak CLP EC member of Selly Oak CLP, Birmingham The rejection by the Labour Party lead- have put forward a resolution to the conference calling for the implementation of the 1975 Labour conference policy on the NHS, highlighting the demand that the principle of automatic compensation for inflation in the health budget be extended to all the social services. we pomt our wat a crasi programme of public works, to replace old schools, nospitals and the like long overdue for closure, will help to meet social need and create employment. The motion also welcomes the recent proposals for the nationalisation of the banks and clearing houses, and declares itself for the cancellation of the national and local debt charges 'which constitute such a drain on social expenditure budgets'.
The conference provides a very valuable opportunity for something long overue - a lamonde locus lor opposi tion to the cuts in the Labour Party. Labour Government that is in the forefront of imperialist manoeuvres, and without defining clearly the intentions of the Labour Government -to bring about a neo-colonial solution in Zimbabwe - the CP leaves the door wide open for Callaghan to carry out these plans over the heads of a conused working class.
The establishment of a neo-colonial regime in Zimbabwe would repre sent a major defeat for the southern African masses. must build solidarity now with the struggle in Zimbabwe to thwart the Labour Government's reactionary policies. The issue of southern Africa must be taken into the labour movement with the demand that the Labour Government break all links with racist South Africa. In this way we can help to shut off the door to a neo-colonial solution, so that imperialism's defeat in Angola turns into a rout throughout southern Africa. **********************************