Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Resort] Police beat up Right to Work marcher on 19 March Barnet Trades Council in North London has taken an important step in build ing the defence of the 44 Right to Work marchers arrested in west hendon. Lon don, on 19 March. They are organising a trade union enquiry into the police assault on the march and have invited Yorkshire miners' leader Arthur Scargill and AUEW assistant general secretary Ernie Roberts to take part in it A workers' enquirv is the most effec tive way to explain both the issues involved in the right to work March and the meaning of the police assault to the whole abour movemen i snoule be one way or ensuring that the interna tional Socialists, whose sectarian politics were prominent throughout the march, do not simply turn the defence campaign into a recruiting stunt to build their trade union front organisation, the Rank and File Organising Committee.
The danger of this was underlined ar ine national Assemory on unempioy After the Assembly on Unemployment. 150 delegates opposed to the class collaborationist policies advanced by the The meeting had been sponsored by the vocals naner me mematona Communist League, the Workers League and ine international Marvist troup Alan Thornett also spoke from the platform representing the Workers Socialist League.
The organisations sponsoring the meeting had already reached agreement on a fight for a democratically run asssigned a joint petition making such demands on the organisers. I was on in basis of the refusal of the organisers to Several hundred delegates had As such these proposals, broadly supported by delegates, mark a detinite step forward in the fight to defeat the anti-working class policies of the Labour Government. The size of the Assembly representation from trade union branches, district committees and even executives, along with Constituency Labour Parties Was Ill pressive. It indicates the developing groundswell of opposition to the Government's policies. end to all cuts, an end to wage controls and unemployment, and an end to trade union support for reactionary policies. Fortunately for him, no-one was allowed to mention that it was Gill's withdrawal of the AUEW-TASS resolution at the 1974 TUC Congress that got the social contract accepted by the workers movement in the first place Despite this leftist demagogy, however, it is clear where the conference organisers and their Communist Party backers see the future
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union executives, came out of the 3,000 strong National Ass- embly on Unemployment on Saturday.