United mass action as on the Shrewsbury issue and in the abortion campaign show the way forward against Wilson's attacks, Party resolutions that the decisive blows against the Wilson leadership can be struck. Wilson and the ruling class cannot be defeated through bureaucratic manoeuvres,but only by smashing their policies in the class struggle. The decisive task is to show in the struggle of the working class that there is an alternative to that proposed by policies such as the Healey measures. The biggest blows against Wilson and the capitalists have been achieved not through resolutions but by the AUEW strike against the NIRC, by the 25,000 who took to the streets against the anti-abortion Bill,and by the NUR strike threat.
MASS ACTION
In the coming weeks it will be through mass action in support of workers in struggle against the pay norms, through mass solidarity with the Portuguese revolution, through developing the struggle against the James White Bill, through stepping up actions for the withdrawal of troops from Ireland, and through occupations and struggles for the right to work that the reply to Wilson will be forged.
For Scargill and others to call for the removal of Wilson is excellent - but a miners' strike which smashed the pay norms would weaken Wilson's position a million times more than even the finest speech. The decisive task is to build mass struggle and mass organisation in the rank and file of the labour movement that can both clear out Wilson and begin the real struggle for alternative socialist policies.
As to what should replace Wilson, many on the left will have different ideas. For the IMG the only real alternative can be the construction of a revolutionary party which will lead a workers' revolution in Britain -but this is itself something that will only be achieved via a long struggle in the trade unions and Labour Party. will be a revitalised Labour Party - or a Labour/Communist alliance. All these questions must be thrashed out and debated. But they must not get in the way of the absolutely vital united mass action which is necessary to defeat Wilson's attacks and NO TO ANY FORM For many others it Tory policies.
PICKETS OU to begin to forge a new leadership in the labour movement. Today the first dividing line in the construction of that leadership lies in who is and who is not prepared to task.
UNITED ACTION take all the steps necessary to defeat the Healey measures and the rest of Wilson's Whatever other differences exist, united action - at every level from mass demonstrations and strikes, to votes in the Labour Party and trade unions - must be forged between those committed to this MASS ACTION TO DEFEAT THE GOVERN MENT'S MEASURES!
THE LEFT MUST UNITE AGAINST WILON'S TORY POLICIES!
red weekly 17 july 1975
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