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SWP Rank and File Conference

Socialist Press no. 73, 2 November 1977 · scan pp. 4–5 · about 306 words

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guarantee that the remaining plants would improve in performance. There must be severe reservations on the practicability of C in terms of whether production ever would recommence.

Industrial relations and productivity are generally no better in the specialist car plants than any other plants. Inefficiencies in these plants are concealed by the higher unit economic profits.

The use of plant closures as a means of "bringing peopie to their senses" has been postulated. This is comThe National Delegate Conference called by Rank and File for Saturbring together a large number of militants from a wide range of industries and from current struggles of the working class over wages, cuts and union recognition.

However, the rank and file movement, which is dominated by the Socialist Workers Party has a history of bureaucratically organising such conferences and there is no reason to believe that this one will be very different.

As worshippers of the spontaneity of the working class both the SWP and Rank and File reject the fight o build a conscious politica leadership in the WOrKINE class through the fight los the policies cracy in the Labour Movement, at its October 23 Conference decided to participate in the National Rank and File Delegate Conference and to fight for a clear programme to be adopted.

Policy Readers who are able to do so should attend the conference and fight for the following seven points of policy.

*Break the 12-month and the 10% pay limit.

* Reject productivity deals.

*Fight for catching up rises linked to cost of living clauses.

*Campaign for the breaking of the Lib-Lab coalition and for the removal of the right sing Callaghan-Healey * Abolitica o: cash limits in the buble sector. For a dimE :: public expen- expen -ditte ==.. :in mi

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