[The January 26 Conference of the Liaison Committee…]
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The January 26 Conference of the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions promises to be larger and better attended than on many previous occasions.
The conference will cash in on the rising tide of anti-Tory feeling in the workers' movement, and the search by many militants for a lead in the struggle against the capitulations of the official trade union But the Stalinist-run LCDTU is in no position to offer such a lead. The Communist Partydedicated as it is to the parlia mentary toad to socialism-has no perspective of challenging the TUC leaders' line of seeking simply to pressurise the Tory government into making conRACING WILD! SURELY THE TUK CIN PROPOSE SOMETHING TO END THIS ¿CHAOS !)
T.U.Co.
CONGRESS HOUSE CHRIST! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, LEN?!!
I JUST PROPOSED ANOTHER TOAST TO MODERATION AND COMPROMISE, I AND HE TURNED ON ME!! cessions to the working class.
Just as it did under Heathwhen it helped derail the struggle against the Industrial Relations Act into a series of token protest actions-the LCDTU will offer no more than a diversionary platform for a succession of hand-picked Stalinist and Broad Left celebrities to thump out empty and demagogic speeches.
For all the fawning support for the LCDTU from the Socialist Workers Party, nobody nown to oppose the Stalinists' political line will get as far as the stage-managed speakers' list.
But to expose the bankruptcy of the politics of the CP and develop our struggle for the policy of a general strike to bring down the Tories, Socialist Press supporters will attend and attempt to intervene in the conference.
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