ON 1 November the Labour Co-ordinating Committee is holding a conference to discuss in unions. First priority in the statement put out by the LCC is given to the Tory attack on the trade union movement.
says: "The entire strength of our movement unions and party must unite to fight the Tory strategy and ensure the election of a Labour government committed to socialist This up the LCC proach, and it's a good idea!
Power But the only guarantee of pressure on the Labour Party to adopt specific socialist policies is successful fight against the Tories. And it is which have the power to stop Tories dead in their tracks.
It's in the direction encouraging mass action against the Tories that we need to turn the attention of this important LCC conference.
The anti-Tory struggle gathering strength.
action campaign against Thatcher's missile madness is underway, and there is growing support for a conference the trade unions and the Labour Party to discuss industrial ( action against Cruise.
The dockers scored a straight victory against redundancies, and more recently the workers at a Manchester factory, Gardners, have taken action against proposed job cuts.
Support for such as these is the best way to win the fight for socialist policies Labour Party. In words the Labour ordinating the should only socialist policies - against Cruise, on unemployment, supporting women's right to work - but it needs to and now, against Thatcher.
Incomes Both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party conference passed many about the policy of a future Labour cluding, in the case of the TUC, a commitment to a five-year incomes real With such a commitment, Callaghan, Evans, and Dufty oppose the struggle now. LCC policies challenge those the right wing.
But to be the against the right wing the workers the policies have to be carried out in practice. An encouraging move in direction the end of the LCC state. ment: "In practice we wish to discuss if there is a role for a Labour Party rank and file trade union tion.' A Role There is! organisation Were on mass action against the Tories, drawing those Defend Unions, the Liaison Com. mittee for the Defence of the Trade Unions, those throughout labour movement already convinced of that perspective, than there certainly would be a role for it to play.
battles the other CoCommittee adopt There Marchers against the have resolutions policy! missiles lobby the party executive last Sunday ES
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