Bring down the Tories this Winter!

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• CDLM POLICIES:

Tameside Trades Council and calling of workers management!

2½ million unemployed, women workers driven back into the home.

Massive economic crisis. Factories closing every day. Huge new cuts in the public seryices. Picketing now illegal, except as defined by Prior's law. 16% inflation, with the standard of living falling rapidly. This is the reality of Tory rule today.

But why is Thatcher getting away with it? She has not defeated the working class. They remain highly organised in a trade union movement which could bring the Tories down anytime if the strength of the working class was used!

The situation is clear. The mere threat of a national dock strike completely halted redundancies in the ports, yet tens of thousands of jóbs Abour. conference *No to the anti-union laws No talks with the Tories-for a general force them out of office!

*Defend living standards! Fight for onct of livina rlances to dive a 1% rise in take home pay for every 1% rise in the cost of living-as calculated by elected committees of trade unionists and housewives.

*Defend all jobs! For occupations, strikes and blacking action to force a policy of work sharing on full pay!

*Aroanice the unemnlnved• for their inlandin an ellin riohts to fall trade union membership. 1'8'145 4I44N% Fight for Trades Councils to organise are being lost in almost every major industry. In Steel the job loss is double the total national labour force in the docks and not a finger lifted. In BL the union leaders agreed to a similar number of redundancies. In the health service scab ambulances closed St Benedicts under the very noses of the leaders of the main health service unions. Nothing done to defend the school meal service or nursery provision. They expelled Tameside Trades Council from the TUC for raising the role of British imperialism in the six counties in the trade union movement.

The fact is that the trade union leaders have protected the government when it has been threatened, as in the steel strike constituency delegates -movı left unemployed workers in sub-committees with affiliated representation.

*Stop all cuts! Occupy threatened facilities, fight for supporting strike action. Set up workers' inquiries into health, welfare and social services to expose private profiteering and the savage impact of the cuts!

*Fight for a woman's right to work! Defend and extend state nursery and nitv rights!

*Demand restoration of public spending with automatic increases to where they ensured the isolation of the steel workers. In reality they are politically opposed to bringing down the Tory Government by the mass action of the working class. They support the so-called 'principle' of parliamentary democracy which says that Thatcher has a further three years to run! But what will be left by then? They are as prostrate when an employer claims to be bankrupt as they are when the Tories say they have to put profitability back into the capitalist economy. The last Labour Government, which the trade union leaders backed to the hilt, had similar policies.

Despite the correct moves by the General Council to discipline Duffy and Chapple for organising the dis.

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keep pace with inflation. Demand Councils repudiate debts and interest charges and refuse to implement cuts or raise rates and rents.

*Unite strikes and occupations as step towards forming councils of action.

*Unite strikes and occupations as step towards forming councils of action.

*Fight throughout the labour move. ment for a) immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland, b) self-determination for the Irish people; c) restoration of political status to Irish PoWs, preparatory to an amnesty; d) defence of his provisions on picketing three days after the Conference finished without a word from the speech makers of the previous week. At the same time the Adwest strikers, who were actually challenging Prior's laws at the factory gates were completely betrayed by the TGWU. At the TUC the policies offered to the working class as an alternative to Toryism was wage control, the same reactionary policy which let Thatcher into power.

Callaghan was jubilant at the rightward swing at the TUC. But the Labour Party conference was different. There, the hatred of the Tories and militancy of the working class was reflected through the constituency delegates sharp contrast to the trade union leaders wielding the block votes.

The conference decisions in favour of mandatory reselection and to scrap the existing system of electing the leader were heavy blows against Callaghan and put the right wing on the run.

The campaign which has resulted in these victories must be continued. The CDLM must fully involve itself in the Rank and File Mobilising Committee between now and the Special Conference in January, campaigning for the right of the conference to elect the leader of the Labour Party, and to kick out the right wing.

The Rank and File Mobilising Committee must also take up the refusal of Benn to support the call for the bringing down of the Tory Government and demand that the trade union leaders implement the resolution moved by Ted Knight on strike action to fight the cuts.

In the trade unions we must prepare for the battles for wages and jobs. We must tully support every wages struggle and demand that the leadership fight irrespective of the viability of the firm. When wages strikes break out we fight for councils of action to link the struggles and direct them against the We must fight to defend every job where the axe falls. We must fight every cut in the public services whether in health, education or the social services. The right to picket must be defended and Prior's law defied. Those arrested and charged under the Employment Act must receive the full support of the trade union movement.

labour movement conferences on Ireland:

*Oppose all immigration controls.

Defeat racism and fascism through workers defence squads. Drive the fascists from the unions. No to the nationalistic policy of import controls!

*Remove the Labour and trade union leaders who won't fight. For a workers' *Open the books of the employers who threaten redundancies or refuse wage increases, and of their suppliers and bankers! Prove the case for their nationalisation, without compensation under

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FACI 10x18 TA FIR More than 1,000 trade unionists and trainee teachers marched in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, on Thursday October 16 agains! re closure of Hamilton Teacher Training College. Several Be march which was joined by MPs and STUC General Wednesday 29 D310D NOTIN NO). THC0 LOCAL GOVERNMENT unions were represented on Secretary Jimmy Milne. secretly dummy dare.

On Saturday 18 O ictober the Scottish Council of the Labour Party held a special conference on the public spending cuts.

Representatives from local authority Labour Groups, Labour Party members of and District Labour Parties met to discuss Labour's attitude to the cuts.

In Scotland the Labour Party have overwhelming electoral control of local authorities.

Yet the conference could only decide on a propaganda Although both the holding of the conference and the decision to increase activity at local level are to be welcomed, the lack of any perspective for bringing down the Thatcher government was evident.

Much of the discussion was around the technicalities of

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