Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan when he an Demanding the right to work and no cuts were uni More than 11 per cent of the city's workforce are already unem the public works department and 600 at National Cash thousand workers from NCR were among those who tumed out against Millan.
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ayed, and 300 workers in Registers now face the sack. A AT THE END of the Right to Work march from London to Brighton, the marchers assembled outside the TUC Conference and chanted We Demand the Right to Speak. : Unfortunately the same demand now has to be directed at the Right to Work Campaign • itself. On Monday a trade union supporter of Red Weekly informed us that he had been told by the Campaign office that no resolutions could be submitted to its forthcoming conference on cuts and unemploySo here we have a 'conference' to which trade union bodies are urged to senc delegates, but at which those delegates will not be permitted to put forward the policies of their union organisations.
As during the London to Brighton march, the International Socialists — the dominant voice in the Right to Work are standing four against the principle of workers' democracy. They are blocking the right of open discussion, the right of all in the workers' movement - be they trade union branches or political organisations and argue how they think the fight against the cuts and unemployment should be Common sense It is not simply a matter of principle, it is also a matter of common sense. The only way in which a united campaign against the policies of Healey and Murray can be waged is to seek the active involvement of all those willing to fight; and by active we mean participating, not sitting as a passive audience awaiting the instructions of the Campaign organisers.
The same annies to the forces which the projected conference is seeking to attract. At the moment the conference is restricted to trade success of the involvement of all those in the workers movement who are willing to join.
Thus delegates should be invited from the political as well as industrial wing of the workers" movement. It means, for example, appeaung to consumency Labour Parne to affiliate to the Campaign and come to the conference. impact the broaden the forces it could mobilise.
A further campaign is to establish a positive relationship with the National Assembly on Unemployment, which attracted more than 3,000 delegates in March.
out clear policies, or any real means of fighting for them, it did display a potential which should be grasped by the organisers of the Right to Work Campaign. organisations. But the not recognise this.
The aim must be to mobilise as many as possible against the Labour Government's policies of huge cuts and unem ployment. Sadly, it appears that at the moment the Right to Work Cam san doe