the market tan nonsense which will finish up by losing jobs and not protecting them.
It is this lack of clear industryone by one. Even in a really militant struggle, occupying a factory against redundancy for example, it is difficion and work-sharing with Do loss of of his policies.
example all the accessory The Scottish Labour Party conference demonstrated the developments which are taking place in the anti-EEC campaign. On the one hand big sections of the trade union bureaucracy, and the overwhelming bulk of the shop stewards and trade union activists, are lined up against The vote of 346,000 to 290,000 for a TWU resolution urging opposition to the EEC on the grounds that it was anfanti-working class organisation serving to prolong the interests of the capitalist class showed the strength of the left wing forces in the Scottish unions. Furthermore it was out of this victory that work is being carried on to build the body called Scottish Labour against the Market (SLAM). This campaign shows the real suspicion of important sections of the working class of collaboration with any bourgeois forces-in purticulas against collaboration with the Scottish Nationalists At the same time however the impossibility of providing a solution to the working class's problems through a chauvinist campaign on the EEC is already beginning to show in Scotland on the oil issue. Delegate after delegate to the Scotlish LP conference gave overwhelming evidence of the bavor being brought by the oil monopolies. One speaker sumned if up by saying that they were ravaging the cities and rural areas leaving a trail of dereliction behind them.' The left burenucrats have absolutely nothing to say on what to do about this. Instead of a campaign for nationalisation without compensation of all oil related industry. the Oil Petroleum Tux announced by the Labour Government will give the oil companies something like * 21,000 million in tax concessions and a tax rate of about half of what was promised by the Labour Party in their election manifesto. Not one single serious move to break the business secrecy of the companies or to attempt to get international blacking in the event of investment strikes by the monopolies was proposed This complete failure to take up any alternative economic policies to those of capilalism leaves the Labour Party lefts" not only in Scotland, but throughout Britain with no cutting edge in the EEC campaign. SLAM is an attempt to maintain some semblance of organisational independence from the open the Communist Party and the Great Britain Out Campaign. This is being done to defend the electoral basis of the Labour Party. The lefts however can offer no alternative other than the uninspiring Picture of a siege economy wracked by economic storms off the North West coast of Europe. Naturally the working class is less then enthusastic about this prospect.
This failure gives Wilson increased room for manoeuvre on the EEC. On most issues he is seared of too open a break with the left" because he fears that they will have the support of the mass of the working class, On Europe however, he calculates that the bankruptcy of the letts allows him to appeal over the heads of the bureaucracy. and of the shop stewards, and get working class support for his policies Furtherotore he thinks he can deal with the lefts on the EEC with increasing impunity. If the lefts ignore Wilson's guidelines he calculates that he will win the referendum and this will be seen as a big vindication The EEC campaign is assuming a dual significance in the tabour movement. Firstly, the bankruptey of Bean and company means that Wilson is winning hands down in subotaging any real campaign for withdrawal from the BEC. Sccondly, if he can appeal over the heads of the trade union bureaucrats and shop stewards on one issue then be will be greatly tempted to try it again on another-incomes policy for If Wilson and the right wing are not to succeed. the cantpaign against the BEC must be stepped up. By allowing it to remain in the chauvinist gutters the Labour left' play into Wilson's hands. A vigorous gentine internationalist campaign can not only defeat the right wing over the EEC-It can saift the relationship of forces in favour of the left on a whole series of Issues .... class collaboration of