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The announcement by Healey last week that the main TUC leaders voted in a NEDC meeting for proposals which include four years of wage control adds urgency to the call to lobby the TUC Since the Special TUC which accepted the wage-cutting 44% deal on June 16th, the first round of now spending cuts, which every union wader knew were coming but purposely concealed, has been announced.

ind now even more protracted and savage wage restraint is aready beim accepted by Jones and Scanion, with complete contempt let the unos The impact of the latest series of cuts by Healey has stepped up the pressure from members of those unions which will make up the bulk of the This has even forced some union leaders like Alan Fisher of NUPE to declare against the cuts. This opens the possibility of conflict between hims and Jones and Scanlon, who have consistently supported the cuta.

The depth of the betrayal of the June 16th Special Congress is shown by the latest unemployment tigures - standing at 1½ million, a post-war record. In this is included a huge number of youth on the dole - over 200,000 The International Socialists are organising a Right to Work March from London to Brighton where they will lobby the TUC on September 7th.

This march is along the lines of their previous march, against "excessive overtime". for a 35 hour week, and a number of other mainly straight trade ' None of them in any way direct the working class to the fight for workers' control as a transitional step towards the struggle for nationalisations, and towards state power. Without this, the IS talk of 'socialism' remains simply The call by the Workers Revolutionary Party and their Young Socialists for a separate lobby two days later, against youth unemployment puts forward such correct calls as "fill training on demand" at "trade union rates of pay" . But this is coupled with the incorrect, sectarian-propagandist call to "force the Labour government to resign!" detached from any programme for Indeed the demands advanced by the WRP are all simply governmental demands - which without programme for local, particular struggles, become It is important to direct every struggle towards the question of government but this must be connected with the immediate struggles of the working class.

For a real fight to begin, the demand for work-sharing on full pay must be put forward wherever redund ancies are declared.

The betrayal of the working class has not just taken place at the national level, but at the factory level also, where leaderships have come out in favou of voluntary redundancies or simply allowed redundancies or closures to take Similarly, if the employers claim they cannot pay, the demand must be 'open the books' of that particular firm, backed by occupation. This direct: towards the necessity of nationalisation without compensation.

The demand for a programme of public works to create new jobs ties ir with the fight of the social services unions, and the struggle for a sliding Both these demands show the necessity for a massive government injection of finance and a programme of nationalisation of building and supply indus tries which would open up new jobs for employment of youth at trade unior The WS will be lobbying the TUC on September 7th on this programme of demands, linked to the necessity of new leadership in the unions and the recruitment of unemployed workers and youth into the unions.

Only in this way can youth and workers opposed to the TUC betrayals br enabled to fight inside the unions alongside employed workers on the centra political questions in the struggle against unemployment.

BRIGHTON: TUESDAY Brighton on Tuesday September 7th.

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