Fight back Such a campaign has to break with the Labour leadership and those in the trade union leadership supporting and implementing their policies. Such a break can pave the way to a defeat of their policies if the IC allies itself with those militants at present fighting for mass action to beat back the offensive in the plants.
Sam Boyd so desperately working hand in glove of British imports. What can we expect from the speakers at the IC conference? First and foremost, militants should have no confidence in the policies of some of those on the platform.
Tribune MPs Brian Sedgemore and Audrey Wise, for instance, both advocate import controls as a solution for the problems of the motor industry. But neither they nor the supporters of such a policy, like the Communist Party, have ever explained why they expect workers in this country to suffer the higher prices jobs are guaranteed. Nor do they explain now all unis nag-waving for brush ma ustry is going to save the jobs of foreign workers endangered by the cancellation But this isn't all. These lefts haven't fought for even the policies they advocate on paper. Alter standing on platform opposing the Government's plan to sack thousands at Chrysler, they ended up joining the rest of the Tribune group in voting for the Government's plan, includ ing 8,000 redundancies.
Brian Sedgemore's defence of this pol icy in an article in the 26 December Tribune simply says that the alternative was to sack all the 25,000 workers -precisely the argument used by the right wing. If this is the sort of policy adopted at the we conterence then it wur do very little to stop the rot in the car industry. living standards, the Labour Government's own planning crit-