Builders' Blind Alley
Socialist Press1976 1976-05-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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The result of the 7th National ence was the same as that of the previous six.
The Stalinist dominated editorial board programme, put before the conference was just the same as that of previous years.
On wages ther was no campaign to break state control of wages; on unemployemnt there was the usual Stalinist advice to capitalism to reflate the economy and impose the reactionary policy of import controls; and on the jailing of Des Warren they called for "renewed activity by the trade union movement".
The latter resolution is particularly disgraceful - it doesn'i even general strike as the only way to force Warren's release. And the only "activity" it refers to can only mean more protests to Jenkins.
Most of the meeting of approximately 300 consisted of discussing the fight against the 'lump' which, although correct, must go alongside a policy within the unions with which workers can defend their living standards and jobs.
The Stalinist leaders of this rank-and-file movement are leading bulding workers up a blind alley and their actions only complement those of the leadership of the buiding unions who are going along with all the attacks of the Labour Stalinist industrial organiser Bert Ramelson:
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