THE WAKE BEFORE THE DEATH The Grunwick strike is over. Let's be realistic. Let's face it.'

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of the Grunwick strike.

Dunn had chaired His remarks were in tune with LIc Echer Theme taken up D most of the platform speakers.

Mamoul Ahmed, ARIT strikers will never call off the strike, If it's called off, the APEX leaders will responsible*.

TRADES COUNCIL committee's assessment of the chairperson, Tom Durkin: "The SEUAICKSTEEEES beaten by Ward and his Tory NAFF allies... What defeated them was the weakness thathasbeens tundamental one movement since 1926. That is the domination of the right wing.' With these words, Kent miners' leader, Jack Dunn, summed up Saturday's national conference in support the This acceptance that the strike was already lost brought criticism from a number of delegates. The convenorat British Rail's Acton Works said he anticipated coming to a wake. A delegate from Trades Council said that if he'd be known he was funeral he wil have donted a black suit!

HURLI convenor at British Leyland's strike was no easier and no more when they'd walked out in Jonathan Silberman, NUJ Magazine branch delegate at the conference, agreed that it was the miahi wing trade leaders that had brought the strike to such a low ehh.

But how were they able to do THE moderate majority of the executive of the Civil hadn't Southampton coming to a depury so after 11 July when it was out of their control? he asked. Can the strike committee control back from there now?

Preston GEC APEX societary meeting called JACK DUNN chairing the Grunwick solidarity conferance in Wombley last weekend John Parkinson wrest Council by women S8L0 that without the Trades Council the strike would never have taken off. But the strategy of Trades marred by the pressure on trade union leader made for sectarian purposes. to act was useless. The leaders had refused to do so.

Worse, they had acted as opent strike breakers when they suspended the hunger suckers, Insuch a situation - wehavetobe prepared to build a movement independent of them, be said. even Brent Trades Council Secre the cries of brenTrades the criticists of Trades Council leaders, He said tbese sort of criticisms were only national meeting of CPSA women members. Socialist Challenge will argue that men shouldn't attend so that the conditions can be created for an organised response to the inactivity of the leadership on problems confronting women We will not support moves fight been launched against the They opened up divisions on the left to the advantage of the right Jack Dromey answered none of the pointsraised — he simply argued that the strikers and th Trades Council were united when disagreed Crilicism of the Trades Counci todivide the strikers and Trade Council, he said.

towards separatism or substitution for existing structures of the union of the Broad Lef and Redder Tape formations impetus of women's meetings, we will fight within the lett tor support for women's demands