DWARF taking a genuinely right-wing path for that would destroy the party within a matter of weeks. Thus unable to go either to the right or the left, they dither. Even their attack on the unions is government, this counter offensive will move from the level of demands to the level of actions. The working class will be faced with a challenge which, wif successful, could reverse the gains of the last quarter century and mean the effective emasculation of the trade union movement. If the crisis did not yield to these measures, the next step might be a regime fascist in all but its name.
Yet this is not a time for despair. Although the working class is not voting Labour it has not given up the fight. On the contrary, the Ford's dispute, the Worker's Control Conference and other recent events have shown that there is a new militancy around. The Conference called for a one day strike on May 1 against the White Paper In Place of Strife and, significantly, for the setting up of action committees including non-trade unionists So far, however, this militancy suffers from several defects. It is still largely defensive, aiming to defend existing positions rather than to gain new ones.
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