Carworkers Conference
Socialist Press1979 1979-01-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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THE CRISIS IN THE MOTOR INDUSTRY Called by the Campaign for Democracy Saturday January 20th, 11 a.m. -5 p.m.
Full details from CDLM, c/o 37, Birchfield Close weapon that threatens to destroy us all.
"Particularly the wildcat strike, that evil resort of dangerous men who refuse even to listen to their own elected leaders.
«The alternative does not bear thinking about.
"We already have chaos. Out of chaos comes anarchy. And anarchy leads to the destruction of all we value.most.
"TIME IS ALREADY RUNNING OUT. HOW MUCH LONGER MUST WE GO ON DESTROYING OURSELVES?"
From the tone of that editorial not a lot longer. The drivers can be certain that they have the power to wring their full claim from the employers. The press can already see the end of the world.
Now is the time for striking drivers to counter this poison by turning to the striking journalists with calls to turn their strike papers into organisers for the working class.
Support is coming in for the conference for car and component workers to be held by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement in Birmingham on January 20.
Delegates will attend from Fords, Vauxhalls and Chrysler as •well as delegations from a number of the BL plants.
The agenda will include discussion on the CDLM car industry statementwhich was issued with the call for the conferenceand reports from the gations present.
The CDLM is particularly keen that other groups working in the car industry attend and present their perspectives.
The main purpose of the conference will be to stimulate the broadest possible discussion on the problems of leadership in the car This includes examining the problems created when employers claim they have no money and union leaders acquiesce with this by dropping claims and pledging cooperation in closures and rationalisation.
in the Labour Movement January 20th, 11 a.m.-5 Digbeth Civil Hall Birmingham Blackbird Leys, Oxford Mason Against such forces were ranged the full weight of Mason's repressive apparatus -determined to divert them from their chosen route.
The resulting clashes last week, in which marchers were forced off the road menaced and shot at by a gun-toting Loyalist fanatic certainly indicated the continuing repression of the Catholic population.
But they were, nowever, a pale echo ot the events oi 1969, and could not be expected to trigger off similar developments to those ten years ago.
The anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland has an important and a courageous But what is needed now is a turn to the building of a revolutionary party that directs the Irish working class to look forward to socialist revolution rather than back to past glories and defeats.