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The local branch of the WRP held what they called an ATUA meeting on Sunday May 4th in Winsford Civic Hall: In the leaflet, widely distrib. uted advertising it, it was described as a "public meeting".
We attended this meeting and had no sooner occupied a seat when the local WRP secretary ordered us out, accusing us of being WL members (which we are not) and emphasising that it was an ATUA meeting. We We then posed the following questions: Would they turn out of their 'public' meetings trade unionists who belong to IS - IMG - CP or the Labour Party? If the answer is yes then at least their sectarianism is constant, if it is no then why the discrimination against those they allege to be members of the WSL. What is it the leaders of the WRP That the WSL should be treated in this fashion is unprecedented in this town and for us is an indication of the further degeneration of opposed Yours fraternally, L. Dudley, A. Dudley.
on trade unionism carried out by Labour attacks....continued from speaks of the necessity from Ryder of creating 33,000 redundancies in BLMC. Benn's much-publicised attack on Finniston is blown up by the press, but is only a cover for the fact that Finniston is carrying out policies dictated by the Labour budget which Benn voted for, which ended subsidies to nationalised industries, and accelerated the recession and unemployment in the British economy. Finniston is thus portrayed as the one leading the attack, when in reality it is the entire Labour leadership carrying out a common policy of defending capitalism. Benn himself then goes the Labour leaders are forced to the right in defence of capitalism, there 1s not yet one 'left' voice in the Parliamentary LP challenging the right wing from the class interests of the working class, rather than simply saving face through left talk. The start of such a fight must be the struggle against the Budget, of which Ian Mikardo has correctly said: "When (men) are put out of work as a conscious act of policy it is an obscenity" The need to defend jobs and the value of wages against capitalism's offensive is pressing.
The first requirement in this is the defence of living standards