Which Way from the Carnival?

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labour movement.

Strike action

The need now is to take this campaign to the next stage and to step up demands for strike action from NUPE leaders who must be forced to turn recent left' words into action and by striking to save this nursery, fight to defend the jobs of all caretakers, kitchen staff, dinner helpers and cleaners.

The local NUPE bureaucrats, Anderson and Millar, are clearly rattled by the growing militancy of their membership and are desperately looking for ways to quietly ditch the nursery campaign.

Eroded

While they duck and run their members' rights are being steadily eroded by local authorities who gleefully seize on the Lib-Lab coalition's cuts policy and every retreat by union leaders as an excuse to make the working class pay for the crisis of capital.

The right-wing bureaucracy in the Oxford NUT has In the biggest display of anti-fascist feeling since the 1930's, 50,000 people, mainly youth, marched from Trafalgar Square to Victoria Park, Hackney in the Anti Nazi League's "Carnival Against the Nazis"

988 A c Predictably, 'left' MPs Audrey Wise and lan Mikardo were among the platform speakers at the rally in Trafalgar Square, ostentatiously parading their antifascist credentials, but naturally declining to explain their failure to lift a finger in the struggle against the anti-working class Lib-Lab coalition and the class collaborationist betrayals union bureaucracy.

The huge turn out for the march is a clear indication of the tremendous growth of feeling against racism and fascism amongst working class youth.

But the ANL is quite unable to give the direction and leadership necessary to these youth.

The apolitical nature of the carnival summed up in the slogan 'NF=No Fun" is inadequate in the present situation where this strength of feeling amongst youth has to be directed back into the organised working class.

The task posed to those seeking to organise these youth is to explain the material causes of the growth of racism and fasc Central to this is the sibility of the Labour mi the Lib-Lab coalition a backers among the trax bureaucracy for the so ditions of homelessness, and unemployment wh the fascists a hearing ready made "solution" c ation of "immigrants"

The ANL, however the prominence within of the SWP, is unable tr these questions becaus Liberal Lord Avebury a of the other celebrity would disassociate fr campaign.

The ANL is therefo to advance the program: sary to mobilise the wor against their treachero, and for the building o defence squads against : and fascists.

The Workers Social though having consideri modest resources at it than the ANL, will cor struggle for such polic knowledge that there way in which the threa the extreme right can be