Trotskyisn and the Mass Iovement

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JULY 20-27 1980 *TROTSKYISM AND THE TRADE UNIONS: USA in the 1930s. France in the 1930s. The postwar struggle to build *TROTSKYISM, STALINISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. The struggle for the Fl against Stalinism in the 1930s. Lessons for the period of entry into social democracy in *THE FIGHT FOR A TROTSKYIST YOUTH MOVEMENT *RECONSTRUCT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL The school will be attended by delegations from the organisations affiliated to the TILC and members of the WSL. A special invitation is being extended to supporters of the WSL to take part in the discussion and learn more about Details are available from any WSL branch or from: WsL, Eight days of lectures and uestions of Marxism and the fig ourth International.

Trotskyist parties in the working class.

France and the USA. *TROTSKYISM AND THE OPPRESSION. *TROTSKYISM AND PETTY MOVEMENTS Evening additional avants.

the WSL and the TILC.

3M Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX.

Cost: £12 including accomodation for cheap meal will be provided at lunch time a pooled fare arrangement. Creche facilities. topics, discussion o basic it to reconst the eight days. A and there will be Additionally, the decision was taken for the Turkish workers to join the Socialist Party-led CFDT trade union.

Harmless

With sections of the media latching on to what seemed a fairly harmless protest, publicity began to grow.

A measure of the Barre government's increasing embarrassment over the issue was the despatching to the vigil of Labour Minister Lionel Stolern, widely hated for his imposition and refinement of the Bonnet Stolern's tactics were to defuse the struggle with offers AN DO

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The SWP's student group the clear paralysis of the Left confined itself to another round Alliance to organise any real 'more militancy' speeches struggle around an alternative which offered no perspective for programme.

rsemble lom S azskars Corner Marble Arch With a display of leadership rarely seen since the demise of General Custer the NUS Left Alliance arrived at Blackpool bereft of policies but hell bent on enforcing control.

The motley assortment of Stalinists, right wing labourites and ageing "Young Liberals" who came together to form the Left Alliance sought from the beginning of the conference to commit NUS to the political equivalent of suspended animation.

Having duly taken all the sabbatical posts on the first day they then proceeded to railroad through on a card vote a motion which effectively allows them to Su The between the link struggle unorganised of workers, especially duck out of any campaigns not directly relating to "students' problems"

Their reasons for wanting such a blank cheque for retreat were obvious. Unfortunately for newly elected Stalinist President David Aaronovitch and his cronies, however, politics was already stalking the corridors outside the chandeliered hall ready to gatecrash their peaceful talking shop.

Pressure

With guest speakers booked from ZANU, the Chix strike, Friends of Blair Peach, Women Against Imperialism and the Jimmy Kelly Campaign, and mounting pressure emerging However, had to be pointed out by a speaker from the floor that the Tories cannot from overseas students it was only a matter of time before the whole house of cards began to cave in.

On the fourth day, the inevitable happened, and the bankrupt reformists on the Executive found their blank cheque bouncing before their eyes.

After a graphic description of the vicious treatment meted out to Republican prisoners in Ireland from Liz Lagrua and Anne Marie Loughran of Women Against Imperialism, a move was made to hold a collection towards their campaign.

At this the NUS executive could stomach no more.

Any Pearmain denounced the whole campaign in defence of political prisoners as "an IRA conspiracy" and said, "We cannot allow ourselves to be associated with this."

In the ensuing uproar an unofficial collection went ahead in defiance of the platform and the Left Alliance, facing a split conference were left helpless.

That evening, at their caucus meeting, after a series of dreary apologies for their inability to build any base in the colleges, the Left Alliance split on the ¡ees.

The trumpe new lea The overseas Crumbled Under intense pressure from Turkish students Aaronovitch argued that the Executive was right to remove all reference to action from the Emergency Motion ón Overseas Students, and as his attacks on other students present became more open, the Alliance crumbled, unwilling to tollow the logic of his bankrupt politics.

As a result, the overseas students motion was dropped on the final day due to "shortage of time"

But when Ireland was finally debated the Conference majority voted to condemn the oppression of Republican prisoners in Armagh, despite rabid attacks on the Republican movement from Tories and Left Alliance alike.

Jubilant conference bilantly ed its victory ( ver the lership. exposure ist leadership was not, due to any principled the left.

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LOUA LOCAL POUCE STATION WED APRIL 23rd SOCIALIST PRESS, however, stand by a political struggle present leadership.

And the Socialist Student Alliance' remained mutely on the side-lines, unable, despite

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