IT WAS A MONTH AGO that the Morning unemployment and the social contract.
cupboard because its main sponsors, living standards to support that he has mistaken policies whatsoever, has lain dormant.
CUTS DEMONSTRATION find themselves less constrained. behind' the lefts when it comes to action And action is the last thing protests trying to policies need changing.
the CP, pressurising the lefts.
WAITING FOR LEFTS the lefts if necessary discuss the cuts that strike action, and be not.
ORGANISE OPPOSITION conference one month later, to Work Campaign.
ist Workers Party), GeorGest Ine Curs. know will be turned down) for a joint organisers.
BREAK TAIL-ENDING basis of a resolution calling for:
against the cuts.
by the public sector unions demanding strike action.
Star first announced, in a three column inch article, that the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions had called for a conference 'to plan action to oppose public service cuts, After two years the LCDTU has been pulled out of the the Communist Pany, nave begun to see a nue gut arte end or tner tunnel. After the left trade union bureaucracy, headed by living standards to support the Governments ca the Government's Contract, the CP have been trying to persuade Scanior but to no avail. Unable to pressurise and cajole the tormer letts into any action the LCDTU, which has only ever organised action insofar as it was tolerated by the left bureaucracy, Now, however, with the emergence of left talkers such as Alan Fisher of NUPE in the public sector unions, the Following the 60,000 strong 17 November demonstration against the cuts by the public sector unions, the LCDTU conference is aimed at preparing the movement to keep right behind the 'lefts' on every step they take. Like Fisher, the LCDTU is calling for every effort to 'change this Government's policies before the policies change the Government'. Like the lefts who call for the imolementation or TuG policies the CP put forward import controls as an alternative to the Healey measures. In the same way they will tail right lefts want. Fisher responded to the Healey mini-Budget by saying that this brought into question the Social Contract - as he did the time before and the time before that. But whilst the Social Contract is only 'in question', he and the other lefts will continue to support it and will limit their action to persuade the Government that benine ane suone sector or pressurising the Government will stand the LCDTU and Instead of waiting for the lefts to act, the LCDTU should be making the lefts fight and campaigning to organise the rank and file union members to launch that fight without The public sector union leaders have said that they will hold a joint conference in March to - the LCDTU should organise a mass lobby of the conference demanding that the bureaucrats call a day of national strike action against the cuts. should take the lead in organising the rank-and-file for prepared to move ahead with that action irrespective of whether the lefts agree to it or The organisation of an opposition fighting for class struggle policies and action against the class collaboration of the Labour Government is now the decisive task. Ine LoDiu can take ine lead in unis by caring fore jointly sponsored by the the organisers of the National Assembly Unemployment held on 27 March last year, and the Right - This could democratically discuss taking action against the cuts and the Social Contract.
Unfortunatelv the International Socialists (now Socialwhilst arguing correctly for strike misunderstand now sucn an opposition can be built. Ignoring the mass influence of the left bureaucracy, they fail to put forward any line for making the lefts fight. At the same time their line for unity of the Right to Work Campaign with the LCDTU is not posed as unity for action, which can only come through a democratic conference of all the rank and file, but as a way of exposing the LCDTU - with the call (which they co-ordinating Compate to be deteNtional Assembly the LCDTU, and the National Assembly The LCDTU conference will mean no more in the life of ine working class than ine tree column inches it received in the Morning Star unless it breaks from its tail-ending of the lefts. A repeat of previous undemocratic conferences which wait for the lefts to act will inspire no-one and be able to organise nothing. That is why Red Weekly asks its supporters to fight for delegation to the LCDTU on the * The naming of a date for national one-day strike action *The building of a mass lobby of any conference called * The LCDTU to sponsor a democratic conterence or the rank-and-file one month later to plan for strike action, and to call for the National Assembly organisers and the Right