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COTOSS 01-359 8371. Distribution/ Advertising AT ITS executive meeting last Saturdav. the National Union of Public Employees discussed the question of disaffiliating from the Labour Party. It is not an idea that executive members have dreamt up; various NUPE militants have raised it.
And SCCHIS resolution along these lines will De some one conference in the spring.
The policies of this Labour government make such antipathy to the Labour Party quite understandable.
When, in government's disgraceful policies, a Labour Prime Minister urges scabs to cross picket lines, contempt TOT leadership and everything stands for IS response of any militant.
But for NUPE to disaffiliate from the Labour Party would be a disastrous mistake.
Millions of workers still see the Labour Party as their party; at least to the extent of voting for it, as do the overwhelming majority Quite rightly, they know that the Tories have nothing but propose hatred for the unions.
This is why would be such a mistake.
that pursuit of the the Labour it the healthy of union militants.
disaffiliation And it It would aid Tory influence and infiltration in the union.
would cut NUPE strike militants off from many of the pay Party.
NUPE says they people whose solidarity is now needed for the public sector A different course has to be urged on the NUPE leadership; that of using its membership to carry the campaign against low deep into the Labour They should call for every section of the Party - from the National Executive Committee, to each and every branch -support the public sector and organise solidarity with the action now They should demand that Labour Party funds are used CALCHSIVe publicity campaign in support • REPRESENTATIVE Pluto Press, independent socialist publishers, are seeking a representative for London and the South. The successful applicant should be energetic and able to work independently. Salary £3,800, plus expenses and four weeks' holiday.
Apply in writing, with full c.v. to Pluto Press Ltd, Unit 10 Spencer Court, 7 Chalcot Road, London NW1 8LH. Tel. 01-722 0141. workers' demands.
It is a battle that needs to be centralised. A call by Alan Fisher an emergency Labour Party Conference to repudiate Callaghan's policies and support the public sector workers would meet with a real response EO IB the LaDOu movement.
Such a conference could help initiate the fight in the labour HOVC LICHI for socialist policies and a new leadership.
IT WAS Thatcher's bash the unions speeches which commandeered the headlines last week, but Liberal leader David Steel and former Tory premier Edward Heath also look-in with their appeal for a National Government.
The partnership is not new. Ever since the miners' victory in February 1974, Heath and Steel have considered that neither a Tory nor a Labour government could defeat the rank and file strength in the With that sole aim in view, want to unite the mai political parties in a National Government. Then a straightforward Tory government could take office to carve its way through the working class.
Historical precedent helps support such a plan. The last National Government, in 1931, savagely cut wages, reduced unemployment pay, and slashed what then existed by way of social services. It led to the largest Tory majority this century.
The plan has some support in the ruling class. But most City opinion is hoping that Thatcher can use Callaghan's attacks on frenzy of public opinion to frenzy of 'public opinion' allow an openly anti-union Tory government to be elêcted Neither the
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