ceeded in demoralising and disorienting many workers.
The results have been seen not only in the massive falls in living standards but also in the abstentions and the votes for the Tories in afteranother. Thefinal act of this tragi-farce the Liberal-Labour pact. Saftron Walden Labour votes going to the Liberals!
What could be achieved with a socialist leadership worthy of the name is obvious. Any threatened retum of the Tories could be met with the promise of the same sort of action that was used to end Heath's governThe need by announcing the Government would fight an election on the basis of socialist policies backed up by the power indicated by and shown at Grunwick.
But far from drawing any lessons from their suicide course, the Labour leaders now intend to deepen their alliance with the Liberals. Alternative policies are needed for the struggle ahead, STRUGGLE Rule one in building the leadership necessary to counter the manoeuvres of Jones and Callaghan is that In the fight between capital and labour what decides the issue is never Parliamentary orbackroom in-fighting. but the mass struggle.
The workers movement is capable of launching the sort of mass struggle which blocked Labour's anti-trade union In Place of Strile. If a fight is made for policies what can give mose saug gles a socialiat direction, ten the runng LEIASS think twice before backing mentthat would be tottering and Liberals, and enemy of the workers' movement.
Instead of fighting for the Labour Party conference to endorse the stand of trade unionists against Phase 3 by the back door - the 12 RULE Labour MPs will go no further than their campaign of opposition to the Common Market.
SABOTAGING The Communist Party has claimed credit for the union decisions while very quiet about their record of sabotaging struggles 303inBl Phase 2 They have refused to follow up the Committee National Assembly Labour Conferences action and organisation in local areas.
There are only two forces in the labour movement who can have nothing but pride in their record and nothing but confidence in the future, workers who refused follow their misieaders and gave their support to the strikers of Heathrow Talbot and those workers who have already gone into action against the pay policy. Those disputes were landmarks on the road to throwing out wage control and culminated in the votes at last week's trade union conferences.
The second force which against Contract was the revolutionary small minority in the workpursuing tactics which are sectanan, nevertheless only the revolutionaries have opevery stage and supported croly struggie against l That stand of the revolutionary left has given ita new audience 'left' Cricklewood sorters.
keeping the Scarman court of inquiry.
in courts of inquiry, independent of by Nation meant right of workers to join a union.
newspaper to argue the virtues to Accarding to Port other.
Searman about him are losing toirs acquired this capacity for boycott of Grunwick mail because *(Grunwick) have agreed to provide the IC CO BE PECK POSTAL BOYCOTT often the postal weeks.
Jackson's trust in ACAS turther. in September ON SATURDAY Tom Jackson, general secretary of the Union of Postal Workers. was loudly heckled 4,000-strong TUC anti-racist demonstration in Manchester. The shouts of 'scab' were an obvious reference to the role Jackson has played in trying to smash the Grunwick solidarity action of the Throughout the previous week he had done all in his power to force his union members at Cricklewood to handle Grunwick mail. He argued that to do otherwise might "prejudice" the findings of Jackson has a touching, if dangerous faith tribunals ways of settling class Take his attitude to the Arbitration Concili which was establisbed under the Labour Goveroment's Protection Act, was to safeguard workers from bein Michael For tale Tea Take UPW Teal conceivable method to find reamable and ACAS Offer acceptable seltiments of disporcs to shar might otherwise have led to what should be she last resort — strice acrion. In arguire las week for Eis union members to trusi the on maintains his faith in such methods while all But Uncle Tom Jackson has not recently self-delusion. In and the recognition question could besettled by n the event Cieorge Ward told ACAS whe of the woek, Ward was later to admit that har boycat continued he would have Teen forced to close Cinnwick within twe when he spoke at the The Grunwick ded
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