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Edwardes The programme is designed The Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement held its fourth conference in Birmingham last weekend-the first to direct its aim at a Tory govern. ment.

The conference has adopted n action programme for raising questions of programme and leadership in the coming struggles (See page 4). for a practical intervention into the struggles of the working class-a point brought out by conference chairman Alan Thornett.

'We don't claim that the CD LM is a mass movement, but its significance is the serious need to discuss leadership in the working class."

International crisis Tony Richardson, introducing the main resolution, stressed •The measure will have an that the attacks by the Tories were not a product of their dislike for the working class but were a material result of the international crisis of profitability that the ruling class is facing.

This applied to the anti-union laws, to the massive cuts in the social services and to the Corrie Bill.

The need is for a programme which can unify and generalise struggles, and to win the masses who were standing up and speaker Timothy Raison offered saying that they fight.

The conference, attended by over 160 delegates and visitors, focussed on the struggle against the cuts, unemployment, the anti-union laws and on wages.

Demands

Meetings of the CDLM will be held in areas represented at the conference to campaign for the transitional demands embodied in its programme.

An amendment from Workers Power calling for preparation for the demand of a general strike against the Tories was accepted in outline.

Interventions are to be planned into the Stalinists' Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions conference and any future conference called by the Rank and File.

But the conference rejected a proposal that the CDLM should seek to organise a joint conference with the two bodies.