PETER HARRAP Report THE HE SCE HE NEUKHST FROM member Richari Edmonds ded not turn up at school best Friday. StrangoFASCIST TEACHER ILL' AS PARENTS ly enouch, that was the day chown by local parents and teachers to orpanise a picket aguinst raciation. Mr. Edmonds decided he was not feeling too well, and visited his doctor instead probably with a 'nervous complaint".
Allaouch the picket reccica a ide publicity in the press, it invalved ather limited fances There was not shoutattempt to involve brand seetions of the local trade onion moreThe light against racism in the sebcols is not a matter that can be lert solely to teachers or parents, but demands and needs the sapport of all sections of the labour inciperent Over 400 students altended a meeting of Bradford University Students Cof on which decided to stick to its posi tion of "no platform for Tascists"
The sickly arguments shout Troo speech were somadly rebulled one speaker pointed out thar to talk about giving free speech to fascises munt giving them a platiorm to peddle taeon to refuse to give any platform lo Tascists has particular susportance in Bradford The town has a really high proportion of immigrant workers which pives a target for local fascists like Jim Merrick.
Merrick got bimself publicity last year when be offered 100 for the sangest Ust of illepal inm grants. A few months ago his supporters attacked at ITS anti-nest como in Brad ford, opping up and burning the Trades Connell banner, The Stadenes" Union deckion must he just a first step in organising to rid the town of sueh scum. The decision of the University tisily unlikely that Wilson & Co. will carry out this demand, so revolution aries are actually likely to be faced with a referendum This means that a campuien must be started for a clear vote against membership of the EBC on any terms. It will be particularly import ant to challenge Wilson's probable claim that the Labour Cabinet, or the Parliamentary Labour Party, is the voice of the working class movement. Concretely, an energency Labour Party conference and an emer gency TUC Congress must be held belore any referendum in order to take a position on EEC membership. The question of whether the Labour Government and the Parhamentary Labour Party are responsible to Parllament or to the organisations of the working class must also be posed, with the demand that the Labour Government be bound by the outcome of these conferences.
The bureaucracy will of course attempt to block these measures. There fore local conferences of the working class movement should also be called to take a position against membership of the EEC on any teems, to demand that local MPs and working class movement leaders take this position and to campaign for a vote agtinst membership in any referendum.
But within the campaign a clear line of division has to be drawn betw een the working class opposition to the EBC and those bourgeois forces, such as Powcil and the National Front, who will join in a campaign ug anst the BEC in order to further their own reactionary schemes. Organmationail such a line of class division must be drawn by oppusing any Joint meetings and demonstrations between members of the working class movement and members of the organisations of the bourgenisie. Every such event must be met with the utmost determination to force the bourgeois clements out of the united froat by desolations, heckling. ete. in the case of the Tones and the Nationalists and by all possible means in the case of the fascists and Powell. Politicaily such a line must be drawn by counterpusing to the reactionary taik of national sovereignty the slogan of the United Socialist States of Europe In this campaign the revolutionary left has a potentially key role to play. Obviously the framework of a united front agrinst the EEC will consist not of the revolutionary organisations but of the mass organisations of the working class movement --even including trade union burcaucrats and Labour MPs, But within such a united front the revolution aries will be the only forces campuipning apainst collaboration with bourpeois forces and for the United Socialist States of burope, The Interna tional Marxist Croup will be campaigning both for a mass united front of working class organisations against the EEC and for united action by the revolutionary left within that united front.