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STRUGGLE The Tories jobless strategy has not, however, gone unchallenged. On the contrary, time and again workers have shown their willingness to stand up and fight.

The eight-week long steelworkers strike earlier this year - which threatened to broaden into a general strike - is a case in point. The mass turn-out on March 9th and, later on the TUC's 'Day of Action' on May 14th, shows the willingness of the rank-and-file to fight for jobs.

What has been lacking is not the willingness of the members to fight back but that of the Labour leaders. at Number 10 - combined with rhetoric about the return of a Labour government in four years time - has substituted for any fighting strategy.

CAMPAIGN This is what makes the mass demonstration planned for November 29th so important. Under mass pressure from the membership, the Labour leaders have finally been forced into taking action.

Moreover, they have been forced into action around demands which can mobilise the whole labour movement in the fight for jobs. The last Labour conterence accepted the call - already popular in some unions - for the 35-hour week and for an extension SOCIALIST ACTION FORUM ON LABOUR PARTY just after the Blackpool conference - at which major victories were chalked up against the 'right' - the scene was set tor a serious discussion on what perspectives socialists in the Labour Party should adopt.

The opening speaker, Terry Viney (Croydon CLP), explained that the present debate could only be graspea by looking al une La bour Party historically. Castigating groups like the SWP, he argued that the formation of the Labour Party was "a major step forward for working people which socialists support and identify with".

It is only by understanding the deep loyalty of workers to the party they built, he went on, that one can anderstau une Diesele csurge. "It is because workers are loyauto their party that they are seeking to detend themselves against the Tories through it".

Mike Rodney (Finchley CLP) continued this theme. Concentrating on the growing conflict between ine correrence ane une rir. ne explained that "this split is not an