Appeal It would have been preferable had those organisers approached the sponsors of the Assembly before they announced their own conference, and placed it in the context of the call for a recall Assembly. It would have been better had Socialist Worker publicly called for a recall Assembly before rushing to build what is, quite frankly, their own conference. Even now it is not too late to make such an appeal and to build a conference which will attract many more delegates than the Right to Work Campaign alone can draw.
This would increase the conference could have and way of strengthening the While the Assembly mose reso unions conference floor. graveyard. practIcal It therefore falls to all who are supporting the November conference to do the job the conference organisers are neglecting. In supporting the conference, we urge readers to insist on the right of their unior branches to submit their own resolutions to and the conference; and whether or not they snould De criticised or us talle to chart the Campaign organisers, to insist that are discussed Similarly, all labour movement bodies should be encouraged to attend the confer ence — not just trade union bodies. Finally, every effort should be made either before the conference or at the conference itself to raise the demand of a recall Assembly The labour movement in this country Is littered with the corpses of campaigns and organisations murdered by their own sectarianism - the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions and the All Trade Union Alliance of the Workers Revolution ary Party are two such corpses. bullaing of the November conference ma well be the. last opportunity to save the Right to Work Campaign from joining this And if the campaign's leadership is not willing to see that what is needed is th mobilisation of all possible forces, then the "rank-and-file' will have to do it themselves pensioners, were not asked to do so. Each person gave a different reason Ideo ocical -and none particularly valid so far as we could see The disturbing implication of this is tha there was no consensus of opinion as to banners, which leads us to assume that this was not a decision democratically taken in a properly convened meeting of those taking part. Obviously it could not omerwise Ine women's and gay groups who marched from Londor would have known beforehand that their banners were not wanted and wouldn't the dact there wasn't even a consensus on A number of let alone on the reason for it the Richt to Work Concludina members o thought gay banners She said that they who takes the trouble to th about it will realise that some of the million and a half unemployed are homosexua just as they will realise that some of ther some back some red-haires , left-handed. neretore. wear told, there is no reason for us to make a special issue of being gay and unemploy and racial minorities are more vulnelault thar others in times of economic crisis. We al sackings and brands of victimisatio i well-usec •InE Dosses avoid paying redundancy money Gays are sitting targets for such tactics Is such as social services teaching and health services. A neat way o spending. Thank goodness the unions are at last beginning to fears witness the reinstatement of gay social worker lan Davies after strike actio comes to redundancies women, are considered to be less in nee of a job than men with families to suppor sen-evident and no-one e disguise they?). But unless w explicit statement ane such as carvine a bantici . Think about it. When wa tIme anyone took UnlesS VOu The sad lesson we have learnt from th Right to Work march is that homosexualit is still not regarded as the essential issue is in the fight against capitalism. It's th same oie neterosexist otoly • as long as they The straiaht left still has a lor