weekend.
ime comerence was a very mooran step in linking community and industrial struggles and developing the broad campaign needed to kill the Trespass Bill. It called for a national demonstration in London on Saturday 19 February, 1977. Local and national campaigns of explanation and acuon centred on existng struggles are now getting underway to build for the demonstration.
THREAT However the lack of delegates from the organised labour movement is a serious weakness m une campan. inereare cer ain reasons tor inis:
* The Bill is not a threat to the trade union structures and leaderships, but a nrea to галк-ama-ne acuon, so m con. trast to what happened over the Industrial Relations Act the trade unions' extensive formal support for the campaign will not easily be turned into action or even delegates at a conference about it * The media campaign against squatters is being used as a cover for the law to conceal its dangers even from militants.
* The failure of the revolutionary left paign is 'big enough' to intervene in.
To overcome this means building local united front campaigns of labour movement and community organisations and drawing the left groups into activity to raise we menace or me bil in existng struggles and structures of the labour movement. The key issues that must be raised are that the Bill is directed at all forms of direct action, not just squatters, HOTEL WORKERS