Wing in the House of Commons to plan their new moves.
Wilson and trade union leaders such as Jones are arguing that what is needed is maximum unity " They are trying to gag the left. This is a road to disaster. Every day it becomes clearer that the policies of the Labour government have led the working class Into a short road to defeat.
Five months ago the working class, led by the miners, broucht the Heath government crashing down. Wilson has wasted every opportunity provided by this great victory. Using the excuse of not haying a majority in P'arlimment, when in fact working class action would have swept aside any Tory or emplayer saboteurs retreat after retreat has been carried out. Openly right-wing policies, such as not repealing Phase Three to Howell's latest dinner with the pro-Apartheid Lions rugby team, have been carried out.
The Wilson line not only is not going to take one single step towards socialism but is quite possibly going to lose the clection Tor Labour We den't think the opinion polls which show Labour support slumping ure faka, They show that more and more working class militants are becoming demoralised by the record of even u few monthsof the present Labour government.
The responsibility for the present employers attacks and Threat of Labour losing the election doesn't lie in 'splits," "isunity: or even Roy Jenkins If lies fairly and squarely in the lap of Harold Wison and the whole leadership of the Labou: Party.
In this situation, far frei toting down its critieism, the left must massively step up its struggle. The real forces to deal with the employers and the Labour Wadersbip lies within the trade
fat more next. a factory or firm Unemployment is beginning its steady climb upwards. All economic predictions show unemployment reaching at least 500,000 this winter and The fight back against redundancy has also started, The occupation at Fisher-Bendix (now International Property Developers) shows the way forward. As we move towards big struggles on redundancy it is vital that the working class movement begins to hammer out a programme for the strugale against unemployment. The most important demands are:
* Work sharing with no loss of pay - This in the most vital demand where the threat is not the closure of a factory bul redundancy within • 35 bour week. A typical management trick is to sack some workers Acting the others to work harder. The working class must fight for ng week to be reduced for everybody and to increase the number ins kept employed thus stopping management's manoeuvres. No. must be worked in ally industry threatened with redundancy spation of all factories threatened with redundacy with the they be nationalised with a guarantee of no loss of jobs. Every against redundancy from UCS onwards has shown the factory so be the way to gain widest support for the struggle, to keep nited and to prevent management moving equipment. nation witbout compensation and with guarantee of no loss • forms and industries creating redundancies to be supervised by workan control. Nationalisation must not be simply of bankrupt parts of firen and industries — fot example not only should the Scottish operation of the Dely Express be nationalised but the whole Beaverbrook empire should be, not only British Leyland but the whole motor industry.
I in abo particularly important at present that the building industry be bed because here there is an absurd situation where housebuilding ALL OVER BAR THE SHOUTING? We don't expect anything to go out and we don't expect anything to be moved without prior consultation — we won't have any of that", says IPD electricians" steward Archie Breden. It was this determination to hold on to the machinery as a bargaining weapon which forced the Government to act so quickly to save the men's jobs.
story The factory occupation and the work