Tuc Lobby
Socialist Press1975 1975-08-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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- LILI Press, whére we analysed Benn's From the first edition of Socialist Industry Bill, under the headline "Jail For Opening the Books?', our -paper has exposed the betrayals of the reformists, while fighting in practice in the workers' movementh for the demands and principles of the Transitional Programme. Our paper is already winning a very favourable response from many new readers. To improve it and move towards weekly publication we need your support. Send donations to our £500 per month development fund to: We call on all our members and supporters to support the lobby of the TUC called on September 2nd, and organised by the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Union:
The lobby is demanding a rejection of wage restraint and a fight against unemployment.
We support this lobby even though the record of the LCDTU has always been to come to the defence of the trade union bureaucracy.
We consider it necessary to pose our alternative demands to the TUC and seance thnos of the Commnnist Socialist Party flags were still to be seen mingled with those of the extreme right in the physical attacks on CP leader Cunhal in Alcobaca (north of Lisbon) on 16th August. There is no sign of significant support, nowever, from workers' organisations for such actions, nor will there be.
The advance of the Portuguese Revolution has naturally provoked a crisis within the ranks of the Stalinists themselves. Speaking to an American delegation within hours of Kissinger's warning (appropriately enough at Yalta where Stalin arranged the post-second world war division of Europe with his imperThe need for a programme to defend the Portuguese Revolution is urgent. Armed defence guards must be set up through the trade unions to defend all workers' organisations against the attacks of reaction.
Joint committees of workers and soldiers must prepare the defence of their revolution without reference to the Armed Forces Movement.
Unity between CP and Socialist Party workers must be established through joint struggles for worker committees in every factory and town, and national meetings of their representatives planned. There must be a campaign for a workers' and small farmers' government based on their organisatinns A Portuguese section of a