to the policies of the Callaghan Government inside the workers movement.
The LPYS conference could have played a major role in that fight. But the opportunity was missed, and the resconsistently opposed any action to fight for them. This was notably the case on Spain, where a resolution calling for the organisation of a mass campaign to force the Labour Government to break au unks wim me neus or rranco wa: opposed and thereby defeated by the as one calling for support for the actions Against Cuts in the NHS' have to date meant nothing in practice LPYS banners were on the demonstration last Sundav. and the banner of the NC was nowhere to be seen. which the NC felt uhable to oppose, such of the 'National Co-ordinating Committee only two All the rhetoric of the National Committee abour me need ror a sociansı programme' is in fact nothing more than an attempt to avoid a fight for a socialist programme. As was pointed out in an emergency resolution on 26 May put by supporters of Red Weekly, Workers Action and Socialist Charter, •Lis urousa Demne tne Dest menters 10! action on 26 May that the LPYS could most enrecuvely campaign ror Hs por icies of nationalisation and public works to fight unemployment.
The alternative for the LPYS were shown most clearly in elections for the representative of the LPYS on the NEO of the Labour Party. The Militant candidate, who stood for trying to persuade the 'lefts' on the NEC of the need for SULIaHst DolCIes woll w.uoS vores the "Clause Four" candidate, who stood for 'a better working relationship between the Labour Party and the LPYS got 44 votes; and the opposition candidale trom te lert, oranam burnam, wne stood for fighting on the NEC to make the 'lefts turn their words into action and organise a fight against the policies of the Labour Government, got 22 If the LPYS is to play its part in building a class struggle opposition in side the workers movement, fighting une ass colmporauons bonces ol the Labour Government, then revolutionary socialists in the LPYS will have to forge a united lett opposition in the LPYS which can challenge Militant for Bcauersup Ton ne ITE IE LIS TaSK Is set about seriously, then by next year perhaps the LPYS conterence will not go by without the workers movement even noticing the difference.
Frustration and anger has recently been building up amongst Cowley workers following another wave of substantial speed-up under the Ryder plan, and signs that management intend to introduce a tough diseiplinary regime in the plant. In dismissing the two men, neither of them leading militants, management was "testing the water".
Parson's treatment of the case as one of making the punishment fit the crime disarms workers against management's attacks on living standards and jobs in their drive to implement Ryder. Only by explaining that even on apparently minor issues such as this, what's really at stake is "Who Rules' in the factory manascmcL or ge workers - can 1711 tants prepare car workers to tnrow back the employers' offensive.
Sam Boyd