Our Answer
Socialist Press1976 1976-03-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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As working class opposition resistance.
This is the meaning of the new Rule 14 which the TUC have instructed Trades Councils to adopt.
Murray's letter (reprinted above) makes it a condition of tecognition by the TUC that Trades Councils accept Rule 14. Under this rule, Trades Councils are prevented from cooperating with any organisation whose policies run contrary to those of the TUC. Delegates can be banned as "disrupters" if they ight against these policies.
Cuts Committees, which continue to spring up all over the country in opposition to government spending cuts, are clearly one of the main targets.
These attempts by the rightwing and their Stalinist allies to sabotage working class resistance to the government's policies must be fought on every Trades Council and in every union branch.
WSL members delegated to Trades Councils are calling for a national conference of those Trades Councils opposed to Rule 14 in order to co-ordinate the fight back against the right-wing.
We call on all militants to take up this cal! in their own union branch or Trades Council.
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sday March 24th, 1976 not survive more than a minute without their support - and all this without even a handful of seats in a cabinet!
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to Labour's policies mounts, the TUC desperately tries to Limit and hold back any real