PRESSURE nave to be told is that we canni wait another 4 years. Trips back and forth to Downing St and "chummy parliamentary debates are not enough. By the time Labour is returned, millions of jobs will have been scrapped and the social services mutilated.
Last February, the combativity of the steelworkers and the support they won from other unions - showed that the labour movement is prepared to fight for jobs. The mass turnout on March 9th for the TUC demonstration and the 'Day of Action' in May only confirms this.
What is needed is to force the labour leaders to build on this feeling and to launch a campaign to kick the Tories out of office before it is too late.
POLICIES The demo called by the Labour Party on November 29th is a step in this direction. It must be the start of a serious campaign, however, and should be based on a fighting policies:
For the 35-hour week!
Redundancies must be opposed by a call for work sharing with no loss of pay. * Open the books! Where firms deny their ability to maintain a full workforce, let them open their books for honest inspection by trade union representatives. * Nationalise under workers' control! If firms are incapable of providing jobs - or are going bankrupt - they should be taken over under the control of the workers in the plant. * Stop the cuts! Instead of cutting social services, they should be extended to provide socially useful work for those 2 million on the dole.
The Labour Party A TASTE OF Mass picketing won a partial victory idating and obstructive
Socialist Action