[Party-prime movers in this Saturday's 'Rank and File'…]
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Party-prime movers in this Saturday's 'Rank and File' conference in Manchester, clearly hopes to restrict discussion to their own mixture of minimum demands and abstract calls for 'nationalisation' SWP members have distinguished themselves in wages struggles by arguing against claims that include protection against inflation through cost of living clauses, and insisting instead on a flat £1,5 demand.
And nowhere in Socialist Worker's populist rhetoric is there any analysis of the Lib-Lab government that is standing rigidly behind the pay limits.
The basis for a fight against the SWP's bankrupt positions however is laid in a resolution to the Rank and File conference from the 5/293 TGWU Branch at Leyland's Cowley Assembly Plant:
This Conference pledges itself to fight inside the working class on the following points of policy:
*To bring workers into action to break the 12month rule and the 10% limit.
*Reject productivity deals.
*For catching up wage claims with cost of living clauses whereby wages would rise point by point with the cost of living as decided by elected committees unionists.
*For a campaign inside the labour and trade union movement for the breaking of the Lib-Lab coalition, and for the removal of the Callaghan-Healey leadership of the *Abolition of cash limits in the public sector, and a fight for a sliding scale of public expenditure.
* Equal pay• *£60 minimum wage.
This conference pledges to fight in ab union conferences in branches and shop stewards committees for these policies, as well as the Scottish TUC. before the courts on minor charges such as "suspicion"
A favourite trick of the police is to pick up young blacks for such serious suspicious acts as waiting for a bus.
If the "offender" is provoked into defending himself, he is then charged with assault.
Although the police clearly have developed these techniques to keep the comnot entirely random.
Raids
The family of Lewisham Defence Committee chairman David Foster, for example, has suffered a series of raids, arrests and beatings that can only be understood as an attempt to scare them into inactivity.
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Wednesday 1977
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