LCDTU Conference
Socialist Press1979 1979-12-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Such is the scale of the mass movement against the Tory government that the Stalinist-run Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions has felt obliged to call a conference in London on January 26.
If the Communist Party have their own way, the conference will centre exclusively on abstract protest against the Tory anti-union laws:
This would amount to cynical ie-run of the LCDTU's jole under the Heath government, when, with the slogan "Kill' the Bill", , it provided a harmless left' diversion from the treachery of the TUC leaders, who stood by and allowed the Industrial Relations Act: onto the Statue books.
Like the TUC, the LCDTU vigorously opposed any demand for action to bring down the Heath government: and is certain to oppose any concrete demand for action to bring down Thatcher.
But 'for all its record of betrayal, the present vacuum of leadership within the working class makes it likely that the LCDTU conference will attract layers of militant workers seeking a way forward against the Tories.
Fight for action
With this in view Socialist Press urges readers to get delegated to the conference from their union branches or shop stewards committees, to fight alongside members of the Workers Socialist League for fighting policies of strike action to bring down the Tories.
In this way the militant facade of the LCDTU can be exposed for the sham it is, and the best elements at the conference can be offered a policy independent of the Stalinists.
Credentials for the conference are available from 137 Wanstead Park Road, Ilford, Essex.