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THE BATTLE FOR TROTSKVISM workers press ISOCIET PRESS F=.: 19"%.

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The Broad Left blame the collapse of Travel on the economic recession : and 'over-optimistic' expansion begun in 1973. The solution they put forward, the setting up of Local Student Travel Bureaux is remarkable both in being identical to the policy of the Tories and in failing to start from the defence of the jobs of the sacked workers.

BLAMING WORKERS

By along Itare: to fold and by at the sace time calling for the setting " o! LSTB's as a replace. ment. the Broad Left are in practice blaming the workers.

What is clearly shown by the iquidation of the Services is the fraudulent police of the Broad existence of Staff Associations as part of the contract of employment of the firms seriously militated against recruitment into the unions.

The printing firm's difficulties were therefore compounded by the NGA's correct policy not to accept work for printing unless prepared by union members.

The LSTB solution agreed between the Broad Left and the Tories in reality means the setting up of more efficient (ie. more exploitative) alternative companies financed by local students unions:

Thus the Broad Left capitulates to the Tory threat to push for disafffiliation of colleges from NUS if the Services are not maintained. The right-wing wants to see NUS converted into a purely service organisation rather than a campaigning body.

It is in fact entirely wrong for IL'S to run aar privare companies. All these serrices should be gorerament fmanced.

This includes the Endsleigo Insurance fum which the Broad Left are currently congratulating for having made record profits.

The abrious question to be Ius broad beji trestaen crne asked is where have these profits come from?

Instead of demanding the immediate nationalisation of all the Service companies under workers management, the Broad Left can only search for "better' means of getting concessions from capital ism.

Likewise their strategy oI education spending cuts is to exer: pressure on the Labour governmen' for a more 'sensible' policy.

This even goes as far as seeing the appointment of right wing Education Minister Shirley Williams as being a hopeful sign because of her 'concern for education'.

Williams first move as Education Minister was to announce the proposed closure of 30 teacher training colleges.

In the NUS the effects of the Broad Left's strategy are clear to see. The right-wing and the Tories gain in influence in direct relationship to the leadership's inability and failure to find a way forward.

SAVED

The jobs and services offered by NUS Iravel, Uniprint and Photomech must be saved. the accounts of these firms must be opened to a joint elected committee of students and workers, independent of the On this basis, the campaign for nationalisation can be fought and extended through uniting with all transport unions in defence of jobs and for a system of useful public works to create a fully integrated nationalised transport system.

Clearly for students, the central requirement in fighting for cat = policy is the splacese: =: me Posticany Santost bureaucracy by a leaders seco itself DE 2 students with the 0* i against the attacks being stied bet by the Labour Borer-ei behalf of apitalism.

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The fight to build a revol- revolutioneration to the road of irisis on a world scale for the ing class.

Triumphant liberation forces enter Saigon in April 1975 ationary youth movement loday takes place under ionditions of unprecedented capitalist system.

As the underlying tendency of the world capitalist economy - the bendency for the rate of profit to all - asserts itself more and more trongly, the ruling class in one country after another is forced to thrust the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the working class.

Unable to bring inflation down society. lo the levels ot the boom period, md unable to produce surplus value on a scale sufficient to match the normous levels of credit created luring the boom period, the ruling Mass now demands, in every pountry, massive cuts in public ipending, wage cutting, reduction of the money supply, speed-up and jationalisation in industry and the creation of mass unemployment.

In launching these attacks, the ruling class face a strong and determined working class which, apart from a few exceptions (notably in Latin America), remains not only undefeated but victorious in a number of struggles, most Young workers can thus be a powerful lever against the bureaucracy in the struggles of the workThe trade union leaders quite deliberately concentrate their chief attention on the top layers of the working class and ignore both women and young workers whose needs and demands are unable to find expression in opportunist organisations, which by their very nature are unable to represent the most down-trodden sections of MOVEMENT A revolutionary youth movement must therefore be forged in opposition to these bureaucratic leaders.

Today, when capitalism can no longer consistently grant relorDs, struggles to delend the interests of workers must be part of a revolutionary programme and fought for by a revolutionary leadership.

This fight for revolutionary leadership cannot be left as a distant aim when youth under capitalism face the prospect of question of the fight for jobs will continue to confront large sections of working class youth.