ginning of the struggle to defend working class living standards. The attacks launched by the Tories unemployment, social service cuts, legal shackles on the unions, incomes policy-were made necessSpeaking at a mass miners" demon They have been counting either on a movement has dramatically backfired.
because Harold Wilson is likely to replace Ted Heath in Downing Street.
Any Government that attempts the road of drastic socialist policies that will defend the interests of the working offensive, The whole tradition, programme of a Labour Government will arouse The task of militants is to push upwards as prices rise. Their defeat at the polls is an important victory for the working class, but it marks only the beary by the crisis situation in which British capitalism finds itself. This crisis will not disappear just keep prices down (which, with their present reformist policies, they cannot workers living standards have a good deal of catching up to do A fight must he mounted inside the unions to prevent the bureaucrats doing such a deal, based on the slogan No incomer polier under capitalim The best way of preventing such a deal is by a massive, allout wages The miners must maintain their strike and insist upon the full claim, the rail unions insist on their wage claims being net in full, and the Manchester Conference of engineering convenors should be recalled immediately to plan a national eng incering strike to win their national claire, Workers foroed to make last minure settlements under Phase 3 should insist on a new deal This wages offensive must be accompanied by a mobilisation of the entire trade union movement to ensure that the Labour Government abolishes the whole apparatus of Tory controls - the counterinflation' Acts, the Industrial Rel#hens Act, and the tighter laws for pickets. The "Day of Action' in detence of the jailed Shrewsbury pickets set for 20 March must be turned into a massive display of working class deterination to release these lads, and must mark the beginning of an all-out camp aign to force the Labour Government to grant them a full pardon PRICES All wage claims must include the demand for total protection of wago Tises from inflation through a sliding scale for nil-norms threshold') that will automatically adjust wages But rising prices should also be tackled at source. Price committees strike. of trade unsunists, lenants and house wives should be set up across the country to do this job. They should systematically monitor shop prices, insist that all firms open the books for regular inspection of prices and profits, and organise direct action (boycolls, blackings, and strike action) to keep prices down. They should build a mass campaign to insist that the Labour Govemment imposes a total price freeze and grants the price committees authority to enforce the freeze.
WORKERS' MOVEMENT The ruling class will employ all kinds of Parliamentary manoewvres (with the Liberals as the main fool to citler block the formation of a Lahour Government or to tie its hands. The Labour Party bureaucrats will lise their weak position in Parliament as an excuse for bor adopting radical policies.
But a Labour Government need not be at the mercy of such ruling class tricks. There is an alternative to telying on the Parliamentary hacking of the Liberals reiy on the organised power of the workers movement outside Parliament.
Working class militants should work towards the establishment of mass comnittees to mobilise support for socialist policies and defend the Government from Parliamentary saborage by the opposition. If the Government refuses to take socialist measures, the existence of these committees will prevent the Lahour bureaucrats using the excuse of their weak position in Parliament, and such committees could then move to implement such policies themselves, If the Govemment, the organs of cho capitalist state tenurts, police erc.) or the bosses try to resist such measures these connsittees could beganise a powerful reply - general