UNDER HEATH and even Wilson, the Liaison Committee for the Defence of the Trade Unions was associated with all the most important trade union battles.
Against In Place of Strife, the Industrial Relations Bill, and incomes policy; for the freeing of the Pentonville Five, and, belatedly, In the struggle to free the Shrewsbury building workers.
In the last few years, however, the Liaison Committee and Broad Left formations have utterly failed to organise any resistance to the Labour Government's attacks.
The Assembly on Unemployment in spring 1976 passed a resolution culling for the setting up of local committee aothing was done. The Liaison Committee conference in 1977 also called for local LCDTUs — again mothing happened. After calling a Duy of Action on 20 April las year, the Leyland 'TUC' failed to mobilise even Leyland workers themselves. in fact, against strike action on the day.
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Leyland convener and prominent CP member Derek Robinson actively fought The policies put forward by these conferences were in general simple repetitions of the Alternative Economic Policy of the Tribune group of Labour MPs: reflation of the economy, Import contreb, und the like. A fight around would effectively die workers to an solution" to the crisis, rather than mobilising workers in a fight for socialist policies against the employers and the Government. The CP leadership. usual, provided no opportunity for amendments to their Behind these tightly stage-manuged conferences and their adoption of weak-kneed resolutions lies the CP's notion of left unity". For them, this meuns an alliance with the left' trade union and labour leaders. Bat the activity of these "letts' has been so spincless that in order to gain an alliance with theim it is necessary to sacrifice the interests of the