like a 35-hour week and nationalisation firms redundancies, which ensure that the work available is shared out between as many workers as possible.
But WC also have movement, linked to the trade unions, that will fight for a plan to defeat unemployment as a whole.
The Right to Work good place to start building such a HOYCHELL.
As in previous years, there will be a march and lobby of the TUC at the beginning of September. This year the TUC meets in Blackpool, march will be going there Liverpool. Campaigning for local branches of trades unions to sponsor marchers helps between the unemployed labour movement.
We need an unemployed workers' movement that fights for a place to meet, has clear demands, and which breaks the isolation of the dole queue by seeking to unite the unempioyea with the trade unions.
This is what Socialist Challenge supporters should be arguing for on this year's Right to Work march.
For details of the Right to Work march, sponsorship forms unionists, collection sheets and letters appealing for support write to: Right to Work Campaign, 265 Seven Sisters Rd, London march: 50p.
Socialist Challenge 26 July 1979 campaign is a DURING the conference General Workers' the and the way in leadership. response links and the secretary, Harry special visit to standing orders. special legislation.
September, file. for local trade mobilise maximum Registration for rights.
conference floor.
day Costello, the has Correctly. must biennial delegate of thie Transport and Union earlier this month, two incidents illustrated the present strategy and tactics of the Communist Party in the trade unions, which those tactics neatly dovetail with those of the union the Tories' anti-union proposals, five branches had put up motions to protect the right to picket. The TGWU's general Urwin, payed a His message was this: withdraw your resolution in favour of the general executive council's emergency motion on the defence of trade union rights so that we' will be able to go to Prior and say that there is no case for 'We' have our own codes and can police 'our' rank and The result was that these branch motions were withdrawn in favour of the executive's call to urge the TUC trade resistance' to attacks on basic union The CP mounted no opposition to this, either in standing orders or on It was two days later, on the last conterence, that CP's organiser, wrote in a full-page article 'notice' in the Morning Star that 'the lessons of the fight against previous such laws more than voicing demands on the TUC is needed.' Costello argues that repeat 'dillying and dallying' that the TUC exhibited around the Relations Act.
"To make sure of this,' he wrote, "individual unions and organisations at every leyel must go into battle right however, means giving of * Resolutions calling for resistance must flood into head offices.' There AL C • calls for solidarity now with the members of the National Union of Journalists on strike to defend their closed shop or for mass action to defend the EGA and other hospitals from closure. We are left simply with putting demands on the TUC Only by a decisive break with the leadership, fogether with those of the er wiich provide Ine tormer witn a 'left' cover, can the rank and file start fighting back.
A decisive break certainly means mass building the most massive lobby of the TUC but it also means a lot more.
Every fight against speeds up, job loss, closures, for more pay, against attacks on trade union rights comes For interyention In discussion Get nothing.
for the supported Similarly of the trade union possible, getting CP. straight up against the Tories. Each and every one of these struggles has to supported by maximum solidarity by way of picketing and industrial action - locally, regionally, and nationally.
example, an occupation against closure of an firm under the Tories rules out the of the NEB or any individual entrepreneur. It must mean production under workers' control and a fight throughout that section of industry for workers' control.
the TGWU conference's Moss Evans reaffirmed the union's commitment to unfettered free collective bargaining, but refused to fix any figure of percentage to the claim in order not to tie the hands of the negotiators.
possible, in other words, but without the kind of fight needed to ensure that it's not little or Instead of a real fight against redundancies and unemployment and 35-hour week, the CP the adoption of 'strict selective import controls - thu exporting unemployment abroad in the national interest.
cuts in public on the expenditure, the CP puts forward no strategy for a fight now.
It will be up to the rank and file militants to organise the broadest democratically-run _trade union based bodies to start the fight back and give a lead to the tens of thousands of shop stewards who are looking for a way to fight but are no lead the 'left' bureaucracy and their friends in the
2. North Unemployment: 7.8%
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