straine voe member of the Scottish teachers tish Labour Party meeting on the cuts anterwards His renly to D'Arcv. that it was!' from the more than 100 militants present.
any Dollica. scottish Labour Pany made us marched behind its banners, rais nationa sation books, a sliding scale of wages, and a shorter working week.
All these demands CouncI 632,000 votes at this year's STUC and won the unanimous endorseDouglas Gilchrist, hecionalcxecutve viewin -ine the EIS, at a packed Scot- could be heared.
1 submit tor opposition to won loud applause With the largest contingent of organisation campaigns demonstraslogans for workers control openine are containTrades orogramme whic CouncH. of the SLP's recall congress year's STUC The SLP contin was crucial challenged slogan carried forward.
No to the Social Contract, who founded elements at the Corrie McChord, Stirling the STUC rally, the SLP meetin was organiset so at all ponto o - movement christ's opening remarks calling unemployment, maximum suport for the miners and total accountability of all labour movement rep esentatives and trade union of! •cials were amolitied Dy activists from their own experiences in RIGHT TO WORK Georce Kerevan. a member of the EIS Further Education Central Committee, backed up Commien, baked of helly SUDDONE TON Right to Work marches But he added that it to not only outside the stud, but also on th floor of the Congress itself if th Tight of string trades CouncH to a programme of action was to be Kerevan also announced the intention of the SLP in Edinburgh to year's District Council against councillor who refuses to oppose all cuts Chairman of moved the Stirling Trades Council resolution at the STUC. explainer its importance in the eyes of SLP members. It went beyond mere protest resolutions and outline a cocialist collion to the To some extent all Western European governments have introduced keystone of all these plans is a pay policy. Italian and Belgian workers have faced attacks on index-linked wage increases; French wage rises are restricted to 6.5 per cent In 19Er restrictions and limits on collective bargaining.
You only have to look at incomes policy to see that, if anything, the Healey harsher than any in Europe. The 4½ percent pay limit and even its £6 predecessor, are lower than the others And this is to say nothing of unemployment and socia expenditure cuts. Even Callaghan has forecast a sharp rise in unemployment next year, and the last round of cuts alone was £3 billion.
But it is a world crisis. talist countries where the workers are being made recoup the cost of international currency speculation and the low growth rate, things are getting worse.
Throughout Europe, however, there have been fightausterity. In demonstrated in Paris against the Barre plan. Italian WOTACIS organised stoppages, as well as protracted struggles in those areas hardest hit by government plans. In Spain the November national strike and hundreds of local actions have been launched against the Juan Carlos 'Social Contract' FAILURE TO LEARN LESSONS But all these actions have been marred by the failure of the major workers parties to learn the lessons of Britain In each case these parties, ranties, nave government which will reverse or 'modify' these plans. A French CP leader, for instance, has commented that 'we are not seeking a trial of strength with the Government... nor do we believe in strikes as a political weapon against the Government. election date, March 1978. And Marcelino Camacho of the Spanish CP 'will not reject any effort to meet the grave economic situation, but we want it to be fair to all Spaniards' Luciano Lama, Italian CP trade union leader, has gone furthest in actually supporting the Andreotti attacks or index-linked wage increases. only enforced by the abstention of the CP in parliament The stratey or the britisn or of a workers party which is leading the attack. bureaucrats are quite happy that they have had 'adequate consultation' contents while the Cabinet lefts, like Benn, claim to have opposed the projected cuts without giving the slightest whisper of what is in store. In fact the only people who have not been consulted are those millions whose jobs and services are threatened or have been lost already.
NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRISIS to save the 'nation", it is proof positive that we have no responsibility for the bosses' crisis. That must be the watchword Contract, following in the steps of the Italian and Spanish workers. We accept no cuts and all those made must be restored. We accept no unemployment; what work there Is must be shared out with no pay cuts. Jobs can be created by a programme of public workers which essential services, not cut them. We accept no pay cuts and wages must be tied to a workers cost of living index months.
the Spanish Government has imposed wage measures have been and will be In all the European capito October 100,000 workers series of short national above all the Communist adopted a policy of waiting for a lef We are happy to wait for the proper The Italian austerity plan is waiting for a left naraly alters trom is curopean counter of the mini-Budget When savage attacks on our living standards do nothing cuts and will extend