TO SPEAK PLAINLY, Healey's OT vine.
The cuts announced last week, services minion unemployed women tenants. Murrav. Jones and Scanion Government in 1974.
compiled by a labour movement enquiry.
guarantee basic action - a system of workers control.
reaching programme which in addition poison of MUST blank the question of power.
the interests all those perialism, but particularly in Ireland.
opposition from the ruling class that opposition strike and Murray wnich the united front.
national strike action against the cuts. called by lobbied with this slogan to the tore Local alliances of these unions, fight to remove its backers at every level as essentidi part of against the betrayals of this Labour Government.
World War.
'mini-Budget' is finishing touch to a year of set-backs for the working people of Britain in their attempts to defend their standard added to those made earlier in the year, now tot up to £8,000m. removed from with the axe falling mainly on some of the essential gains won by the labour movement this century - education, health and housing. Inflation is now eroding wages and salaries held down by incomes policy at a rate of 10 per cent a year. Unemployment shows no sign of being reduced from 1.4 million and the 'shadow' half a The political root of these savage attacks on the living standards of the working class is the Labour Government Using the umbrella term of the Social Contract, they have steam-rollered acceptance of these policies using the inspiration and willing support of their trade union lieuThe alternative fought for by revolutionary Marxists is based on one simple idea - tat tne capitalists snould bear the cost of the capitalist crisis. In the course of such a Damie une basis can be laid tor une overtrow or a systen which is incapable of producing anything but poverty and the sort which increased the number of people living under the official poverty line by three million in the first year of the Labour To employ the jobless and meet social need, a crash programme of public works must be fought for, with spending on services automatically compensated against inflation. The same principle should be extended to cover wages and all state benefits such as pensions, grants, dole money and other payments based on a price index The same task of enquiry into the affairs of the ruling class should be extended to those firms declaring workers Their books and forward plans should be opened to the workforce and a plan drawn up for work-sharing without loss of pay. Firms and industries unable right to work should be nationalised under a system developed through such Such policies would only be the basis for a more farwould have undertake the task of fighting for women's rights.
confronted by the scrapping of all racist laws, the right of black people to organise in their own defence, and the driving of fascists and racists from the labour movement and the streets.
But however limited this programme, it poses poll The finance for such programme could be gained from the nationalisation o the top monopolies and their super profits, including the banks and the finance houses. Additional finance could be gained by cutting expenditure on the armed forces in oppressed by British imOf course such policies would rouse the most violent parliamentary representatives. Only the mass action and sent-organisations or te working class could overcome That is why these policies will remain words on pape unless they are linked to that need for mass organisation in the working class. The basis certainly exists: the 60,000 workers who poured into the London streets on November to protest against the cuts; the 75 per cent of miners who voted for action in support of their claim for and the hundreds of thousands of women who face the super-exploitation which the Trico strikers successfully challenged in their historic equal pay But there is no alternative leadership to the likes of workers care prepared recognise as yet. It can only be built through the fight for What does the phrase 'united front' mean today? First and foremost it means demanding that those 'lefts' forced into the 17 November demonstration by their membership, particularly those like Alan Fisher of NUPE, must be compelled to go a step further - by naming the day for The conterenc the public sector unions in March must be , based on the perspective of national action, should be built in every area The various rank-and-file organisations and campaigns in the unions, the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, the Right to Work Campaign, and the forces around the Working Women's Charter must be unified on the basis of opposition to the Social Contract and the The blatant betrayal of the Labour Party conference resolutions instructing the Labour Government to carry out no further cuts in services puts the labour movement in a new situation. The demand for the recall of the conference to bring Callaghan and Healey to account is an unifying the powerrur rank-and-The opposition to the cuts in the trade unions with the left in the constituencies. But such a campaign for the recall of the conference has to include a fight against the policy of the last conference in supporting the Social Contract, and a recognition that this in fact holds back the fight against This is the programme for a left wing in the working class - an opposition committed to the policies of class struggle, not class collaboration. The coming year will see any such opposition in a minority. But it is a minority which can win the resistance in the class to mass action Those betrayals unless fought will bring in the most viciously anti-working class Tory Government since the Second