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ob 29 March. Forty people, including six families, are nuw comfortably enOne of the squatters said: "The co-ordinated action of the speculatoes support will he extremely welcome.
Socialise Wonker, The reports of the Internarional Socialists National Conintillee meetings published in Socilin Worker sugyest that they are morbid occasions. Last week we were told: *After a discussion lasting most of Saturday, the IS NC called for a campaign to tura 40,000 buyers of Socini Worker into sellers. Whnt To brood for a whole day and give birth to such a banality is bad cough. But to present this cummonplace procedure of any political group as a major innovation after IS has been in existence for over 20 years is the neight of absurdity.
Sadis. Lhas is only one more example of a grosing trend of the [5 - lo confuse for the Is with what is important fot the class stapele as a whole. Thas Lie forces. minors' strike was scen by 1S primarily as an apportunity for mass rocruitment, and the lection campaign as an oppartunity to dramatically exparl the sales of This is not simply an aberration. It flows from a particular conception of puiteN wuen the bs tessersaa nold and whith is revcaled by the undercurent of the ohate at the IS NC The dehate was essentially between the Labour Government which would 'the Goverment when thea: demanda remainod unduliiled. and chos essentially of the same mauld, who thouhr that the Labour Goverment woukd oxpose up battations of recruits dicillasionod le Meanwhile all that was necesary was to make arping attacks ou die Goverment in the newspaper, and to throw the IS membership into the frantie activity of turing all 40,00 readers of Socialist Morler inta acilers.
This politics of passivity is absolutery uscicas-cypecially in the present period. It is not tor us to stand idly by winiting for the 'boneymoon" to be over, cominenting Iom the side-lines on the latert sins of the Labour Governmcot, In the absence of any ciar alternative in action heine offered, such s honesmoon is Jsut as likely to and in demoralisation and de pair for the working class.
It is nevitable that with the rapidly deteriorating econamic situation, we will see hitter tought strugsles on such ques tiens as redundancy, housing and prices, which may even hegin at a local level. And in the face of the paralysis of Ibe bourgeois partis at the level of perliament, ALseM no uBunt oorsuin! around these struggles can have decisive results with big effects on the balance of it is only in dis way that the aim of a 'roal rank and Gle mowent" has a hope of success, IE the revolutionary during the crucial days when leath sar clinging to office immeditely after the lectioos, speculating what the outcone woudl be, the future lonks very hleak