WHO WILL FIGHT CALLAGHAN? Key Issue Is Breaking

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Callaghan-no fears of serious revolt by the lefts' There they will such a dee year's par' The right wing's line for the Labour Party conference : is already plain for all to see. Healey, Callaghan and the coalitionists who make up the present cabinet will set out above all to ensure that the key issues of pay policy and the Lib-LaD deal remain intact.

Any censure they receive on this or that aspect of their reactionary pro-capitalist policies will be brushed aside with the time honoured contempt shown by Labour leaders for party conferences.

A few crocodile tears on youth unemployment will be shed, a memorial bouquet or two thrown on the coffin of the mutilated social services, and a liberal helping of fraudulent hints at better times to come and a Christmas bonus for Britain's starving pensioners will be the biggest concessions made by the crypto-Tory right wing.

KNIFE-EDGE

Yet Healey and Callaghan know their coalition government hangs on a knife edge. Any day now mass struggles on wages could precipitate a governmental crisis that would sweep them from office.

The reason they feel able to approach the annual conference with such arrogance is the spineless capitulation by the Labour "left' even before the first signs of battle.

The "Tribune' group of MPs, for example, has trooped obediently time and time again into the Parliamentary lobby in order to register support for the Callaghan-Steel coalition, and the pay laws it was designed to introduce.

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Indeed it is even unlikely that any leading figures on the Labour "left' will be unmannerly enough to blurt out the fact that this is a coalition government in which the Labour Party plays second fiddle to the bourgeois Liberal Party.

Certainly Callaghan and Healey will feel safe from attack on this score from the tame cat 'Trotskyists" of the Militant group, who have openly declared their opposition to breaking the coalition deal, while pleading for a whole range of socialist policies to he implemented by Callaghan. Tuesday October 4 and called instead for a lobby of the annual Tribune Group meeting on Sunday October 2 at 10.30 am at the Dome Brighton.

Our central demands the 'lefts':

*Break the coalition. fight at this conference!

*Fight for the removal of Callaghan Healey leadership!

*Support all pay struggles.

*Fight for a socialist program for the coming general election.