OUR POLICIES C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.
Sovialist Challenge believes that the IWO revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism labour movement.
non-exclusive in grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the creation of unified organisation which can, through application lallico. begin to be alternative by workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for are in confronting believe?
In the These should character, were televised last Many trade:
Murray and was at its height, abroad. united front of Lic collatery the power to enforce decisions' However.
socialism bosses their be IS 'Lenin Murray', as the Daily Express dubbed him, really intent on organising political strikes to undermine an elected government as the Tory press would have us The TUC's general secretary was given the opportunity to defend the unions' arainst me covernment Granada TV Lecture, excerpts from which : Thursday who worked • hard to build the Day of Action will wonde similar speeches up and down the countrv wher the press witch-hunt against the unions instead of holidaying Suggestions can be found in Murray's lecture, entitled "The democratic bargain'. He insisted that 'the issue is not who run:
governments are elected to govern, and in the last analysis they have 'democracy is essentially a bargaining activity" the unions have a legitimate right to bargain not only with employers but also NOT V I Lenin with government' - the Day of Action being a way of pressuring the Tories to stento me anons vews For Murray, union action is just a means of seeing that 'a fair bargain is. suruck. wilch al sounes very rcasonabe and a far cry from V I Lenin. Never mind socialism, or even getting rid of this wretched Tory government, everything will be caolausts ane prepare have see more these have promises have led before. Murrav himsel gives one example, the social contract of the last Labour government only boosted workers living stanoares the fall of the Callaghan administration We have also seen what happens when structures art acvisca workers can get a piece of the action and accept that, if they are involved in decision quences,' as Murray puts it.
The consequences of the mismanagement of British Levland for instance, has been to tie the unions' hands workers get kicked onto the dole.
Unfortunately it is not true, as Murray claims, that 'there is a lot of common interhere is the common is erest betweents. between two siacs or maustry wnen the employers order to secure their profits are intent on calling wages and Jobs i Nur worker an andovers SEn off in they workers art elsewhere comwhich not while Cutle , but also lea to newspapers dispose ency Have to accept tne conse- smallest terests? participation in So long as thousands promise empoyers'. dispense and genuinely action.
Seventy-two Capitalists can put heir nivestment sier. bargaining position.
think they Wil COTOR HOSI workers can't so easily take their labour competing 1½ million unemployed The working class has a vote every five years, but it is the small minority who own the wealth in this country who decide hou will print; whose 'right : of their property defended by the law and the courts Just how much respect for the law and order of Parliament have they shown when a Labour government has taken even measure against their in • there are emplovers and governments like Thatcher's which stand for the employers' interests, Len Murray may well be able to go on negotiating com JOI traces deals which will inevitably mean ever greater sacrifices for the working class.
When it comes to a fight to remove thi spense it the employers here to employers altogether • plan. the Lit economy according to need and not profit Len Murray is only capable of days of in per cent of all applica. tions for unfair dismissal are lost. Com. pensanon Is generally low, and co-workers