Conference Campaign Under Way

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IS banner on the 'non-political' Right to Work March make an exception of IS banners in arming to do battle with the available from WSL. 31. Dartmouth Park Hill. London NIS THP

WORKERS PLAN

Further enquiries would reveal the massive sums of money paid to education suppliers, school building firms and examination boards.

A workers plan for education, linked to the educational requirements of youth and workers in each area would then be produced, based on the nationalisation of these companies.

But the fight for a new leadership in the trade unions which will defend the living standards of the working. class must be taken into the NUS if this year's graduates are not to follow last year's onto the dole queues.

This fight can only be taken forward around the programme outlined above. It will at every stage meet the hostility of the Communist Party-led Broad Left who as last year showed are willing partners to the trade union leaders who accept wage cuts and attacks on the social services from the Labour government.

Peter The organisers also managed to the final stage of the march.

Enforcing this rule the march leaders physically pulled down the banners of the Gay Workers and the : "Women's Right to Work" Both these banners were supported by the International Marxist Group who were present on the march and accepted all the disciplines including no banners.

The harsh reality was that the IMG disappeared without trace into the march, and were left without any independent political voice when the TUC lobby began.

On the Sunday before the TUC started IS members incorrectly disrupted a Tribune meeting and on the Tuesday of the TUC there were 'scenes' at the IUC lobby by marchers provoked by the arrogant behaviour of delegates, which the capitalist press was able to twist and use against the campaign.

The bureaucracy used the tactical error of the IS to attack all those opposed to their sell-out and describé them as being 'fascists' or close to fascists, and therefore outside the labour movement.

While the TUC launched its attack on the seamen and Jones and Scanlon attempted to tighten their noose around the shop stewards movement in the motor industry, more trade union support has been won for the fight back - the October 24th Conference on Wage Control and Union Democracy called by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement.

In Cowley, where TGWU officials have been working hand in glove with Leyland management in allowing recognition to be ND F RIG ITTEE so there was Len. мигау, seamen, talking about Trotskyist 'boot boys' , and Denis Healey talking about 'Hitler Jungend' chant taken up by the Tribune.

This unholy chorus was taken up by the WKP, showing the rightwing politics which is the other side of their sectarianism. In a scandalous attack on the Right to Work marchers, the WRP's News Line branded them as "hooligans"

We completely defend the Right to Work march against the slanders of the WRP and the proven scab leaders of the TUC. We recognise the frustration and anger felt by the marchers when confronted by trade union and Labour leaders who arrogantly refuse to take the slightest action in defence of their members.

But at the same time we must point out sharply that the adventurism and protest politics of the IS, creating the illusion that they are breaking workers from reformism simply by howling down reformist leaders, cannot provide a way forward to the building of new withdrawn from four , shop stewards, the 5/293 TGWU Branch has supported the Conference and elected a delegation of twelve.

STRIKE

Also in Oxford the 5/833 ACTSS (Blackwells) Branch, which earier this year carried through a long successful strike against victimisation in the teeth of obstruction from local TGWU officials, has agreed to sponsor the Conference, and provisionally elected six delegates with the possibility of additional delegates from the next branch meeting.

In Leamington, the Trades Council has agreed to support the On- Sunday 12th September 4000 people marched through London ın a demonstration called by the "Chile Solidarity Campaign"

A contingent from the Workers Socialist League joined the march.

This event, called to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the Chilean military take-over had the character of a funeral march.

Dominated by the Communist Party and assorted Labour 'lefts' both the slogans of the demonstration and the speeches at the end reflected a conscious attempt to avoid any discussion of the lessons of the Chilean coup.

In this the Stalinists of the Communist Party found support in revisionist groups like the IMG and IS who also made no attempt to raise these questions.

The Workers Socialist League was the only organisation there which openly denounced the role of the Chilean Stalinists who did nothing to prepare the working class against the coup.

The WSL also fought to expose the current attempts of the CP in Chile to form an alliance with the Christian Democrats, thus creating a new barrier to the struggle to overthrow Pinochet and lead the working class to power.

Despite criticism from those who claimed that the WSL. was breaking the "unity" of the demonstration, the • WSL carried on this fight on the understanding that only by drawing the main lesson Øf the Chilean defeat - the counterrevolutionary role of the Stalinist Communist Parties - can the working class prepare the ground for future victories. the impact of the Ryder participation scheme - the 5/104 Branch at Export Packing Services, Banbury, has voted support for the Conference and elected a delegation of seven, while inside the factory a number of additional workers have signed up to attend.

In London the following resolution has been passed.

"This Barnsbury branch of the NUR opposes the 42% wage FOLROSE TIL BATTLE FOR TROTSKYISH Iwa LED (hg Repusition expelled DIH TENE Workee ReNNMikicxă ri Party in 174, wap wag 199,100 1е струкку is 204r ркір CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT Conference on WAGE CONTROL AND UNION DEMOCRACY Sunday 24th October. igbeth Hall, Birminghan Sessions 10am - 12.30pm. 1.30pm - 4.00pm.

Credentials, 50p, from Kevin Lee, Campaign Secretary, 44, Devonshire Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham 20% Cowley workers leaving TGWU Oxford office.

BOOKS THE TRANSITIONAL The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International: .....30p BEHIND THE SMOKESCREEN An analysis of the sectarian politics of the WRP... ...40p (p&p: 10p)

TROTSKYISM TODAY BACK ISSUES "Fourth International - Problems and Tasks" .15p "In Defence of a Great Revolutionary: James P. Cannon" by Tim Wohlforth 10p "The Post-war Reconstruction of Capitalism" plus a reply to Wohlforth's article on Cannon..... "The General Strike" ............5p "The Significance of the Transitional

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