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Returned to office after five years of Labour betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crackThe Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek.

And, though they have once more dusted off their near-forgotten "socialist" speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan.

TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti-working class alfiance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Such & leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to recial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistent. ly revolutionary claus capable of leading the struggle for the And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising sólidarity. for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggleswhether in Ireland, in Southern Africa of elsewhere throughout the world, and drewing strength, and political lessons from revolutionary upheavels such as that which ousted the hated This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky. This method of approsch, relecting any descent to simple trade union militaney, or 'concersions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, ll the method fought for by the Workers Socialist The noxt period will see major cless strúggles in Britain. A principied, Marxist leaderchip is essential. Our movement though atrong in programmo remains smail in numbers. down in the accupied North of Ireland.

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