Nor is it possible to fight unemployment and keep quiet on the matter of pay controls. That might save the Labour MPs some embarrassing moments, but it fails to confront the means by which capitalism is attempting to make the working class pay for its crisis. The dole queue and reduced living standards go hand in hand.
However. in its guide to action the conference offered some positive proposals. It proposed to make the fight against unemployment the main theme of May Day'. A National Day of Action is also proposed for 26 May, with a march for supporters from London and the Home Counties to lobby MPs at the House of Commons.
This should be turned into a day of with strikes and demonstrations in every town and city demanding an end to the Government's policies of unemployment. Dundee set an inspiring example with its local general strike on 5 March. The delegates and supporters of the Assembly must now fight to turn every city into another Dundee on 26 May.
The Assembly also called for the setting up of Action Committees *to campaign against unemployment based on trades councils, trade unions, factory groups, political organisations... The task is to fight to build these in every area and to make sure that every single organisation in the workers movement is affiliated to the Action Committee.
Test is action These should be built not on the policies advanced by the conference organisers, but around demands for the rejection of all wage controls, the restoration of all cuts and the introduction of a programme of nationalisation and public works to ensure the right to work.
The test following the Assembly is what will be done to put the