ROAD BLOCKS are being built to the action decided on at the National Assembly on Unemployment in March.
They don't as yet come from the trade union bureaucrats who are stomping the country pleading support for the Government's plans to force down living standards furter wrouga mcomes poucy. racy come from those who were their closest friends until very recently Many of the 3,000 delegates who attended the Assembly must have had illusions that the Communist Party - the main political force behind the organisation and mobilisation for the conference - had serious intentions of fighting for the policy passed. These must have been reinforced in Sheffield when a reportback from the Assembly was taken at the Trades Council. A motion calling for a half-day stoppage and demonstration was passed, and a controls, and a fight for the adoption of socialist solutions as the only way out of the crisis for the "Technical' objections were at once raised against discussion of the motion. All right, said the delegates from Woodseats, let's discuss it at the conference on 10 May. Vi Gill of the Communist Party stepped in. The only motion that would be discussed was that of the Executive Committee of the The 27 March Assembly on Unemployment-the CP's call for action committees turned out to be just rhetoric Trades Council. No local action committee was going to be established in Sheffield.
Blocked by these manoeuvres in the Trades Council, militants in Sheffield will be fighting for workers democracy at the conference by demanding that this motion be heard and unity forged around its proposals.
Delegates to the Assembly, who of all should examine the reason why the Communist Paity is now applying the brakes. Unity does not prevail on the question of incomes policy port to that conference. Yet the one thing that dominates the political stage at this time is the deal being cooked up with Healey.
The question of direct action, whether it be on unemployment or of the Labour Government which the left leaders are politely allowing to go through without any organisation of their base for a fight. The fight for action on 26 May must include the demand that these lefts organise action and break from being Callaghan's most loyal opposi-COT went away with high hopes in March, capitanst class.
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