THE SPLIT in the United Secretariat of the Fourth International is important to revolutionaries not simply because of the revolution in USFI is the organisation of a large proportion of the world's revolutionaries.' of us outside the USFI an opportunity to look at how differences are handled The USFI handled this situation badly. To say that to call an 'Open Conference of the Trotskyist movement' is to say the the USFI is dead is a piece of logic that overrates the USFI. The USFI doesn't equal the Trotskyist movement, and in fact the USFI has been calling for unity, what then is wrong with calling a conference?
Obviously the BF and LTT are not children, they knew that by calling this conference independently of the USFI they were going against what the majority wanted to do. But why did the majority give them satisfaction by expelling them?
The BF and the LTT could have been forced to split at the World Congress. It would have been sufficient for the USFI to have issued untimeliness and basis of the conference and making clear that the issue would be debated politically at the World Congress.
More worrying than this revealing • page 14 some propositions tend to become rather simplified. However, Jude Woodward's article (1 November) seems to go beyond such considerations.
She says: '... the first thing required is an immediate increase in wages, pensions and unemployment This split gives those pay. This will... ensure that more money circulates in the economy, leading to greater commodity sales and hence to an increase in economic activity.
works. This means reversing the cuts of public works, in health, education, housing and so on, under workers' control.' Next, '... weshould call fora reduction of prices of essential commodities, coupled with releasing extra resources for investment by radical taxing of the rich and cutting defence expenditure.
'Other elements which posea workers' solution to the crisis include the sliding scale of wages and social expenditure to ensure that people's standard of living at least keeps pace will Illallonl... of foreign trade coupled with workers' control of industry and the direction of investment so that it is in • the interests of the working class.' Since she goes on to suggest that even more could be done if the working class took over and ran things itself, it would seem that all the And: Secondly ... useful public independence. and embarking on a crash programme In Australia:
are out of work Weneed a monopoly ACTIVISTS of the National Aboriginal Liberation Front of Australia are starting the Aboriginal Information Centre in London (c/o Box 19, 136 Kingsland High Street, London E8). We aim to create an awareness of the problems and political struggle of black Australians, and to raise political and financial support for land rights, self-determination and economic *Only three out of ten aboriginal children live to the age of five.
*90 per cent of aboriginal adults The Revolutionary Communist Tendency is launching a regular review, the next step. next step for the working class. For the RCT - because it will tron in the labour movement. For the working class will point the way forward from the struggles of today to the next stage in the struggle for state power.
Send orders for the next step No 1, cheques and postal orders to Junius Publications, BCM JPLTD, London WC1V 6XX. Single issue 20p (+8p postage), subscription for ten issues £2.80.
Public rally to launch the next step, the first revolutionary working class paper in Britain since the 1940s. Speakers: Mike Freeman, Sabena Norton, James Wood. Friday 30 November, 7.30pm. Holborn Assembly Hall, John Mews, Northington St. off Grays Inn Road Bob Pennington in action — get well messages and greetings can be sent to him c/o Socialist Challenge.
This is the next step for the RCT and the • of our propaganda and sharpen our interven - because it
the mass media and create media of its own.' is right.
could be launched. of Hull News. 'WHEN the history books are written they will show 1979 10 be a turning point in the determination of the labour movement to confront That was Tony Benn's prediction at a conference on 'Workers, Unions, and the Media' held by the South-east Regional TUC earlier this month. The evidence of that conference alone suggests that Benn Nearly four hundred trades unionists were delegated to the conference; speaker after speaker came to the microphone to suggest action to counter the mass media's uniform hostility to the workers' movement and its love for Tory policies, and how alternative media The SE Regional TUC now intends to urge all trades councils in the South-east to hold similar local conferences, to encourage the trades councils to publish local bulletins or newspapers, and to call on the media unions to examine complaints against the bosses' media.
Establishing a mass labour movement press, locally, will present a range of political and financial problems, which hit two such projects. Here COLIN ROBINSON records the rise and fall of the Daily Heraid and NOEL HIBBERT reports the temporary demise nationally and We sound and ruraour?
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