(a) The building of the party takes as its starting point that it is only on the basis of intervention not merely in all layers of national society but also in the totality of international society that sufficient knowledge for the development of a revolutionary programme can be gained. (b) The raising of the level of activity of the masses by the revolutionary party is carried out through the organisation of propaganda and agitation (i.e. through the medium of the presentation of ideas - "calls to action" on specific issues either simply flow logically from the content of this propaganda and agitation or fulfil an executive function). (c) The consciousness of the already active masses among whom the revolutionary party works is not reducible to the ideas which they acknowledge. The consciousness of the masses is a question of all their relationships to their circumstances, the most important circumstance to which they relate being of course the social dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It is only on this basis that it is possible to understand the uneven development of consciousness within the working-class, including such complex phenomena as Social Democracy and syndicalism. (d) The task of breaking the working-class from social democratic politics is not a question of exposing the nature of the leadership of the Labour Party but of revealing the bankruptcy of the entire social democratic method of struggle. (e) In the practical intervention of revolutionaries in the class struggle the "fundamental idea" on which our activity must be based is a concept of the epoch as one in which in a historical sense the bourgeoisie has no progressive role to play and in which capitalism, again in a historical sense, cannot even solve the immediate problems of the working-class. Without such an understanding we are helpless to deal with the Keynsian theories of labourism, the popular frontism of the CP. the gradualism of Labourism etc. support the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Student Unions. 3. A mongst women we should continue to work through the Socialist Woman groups and our main work should be on the issue of equal pay/equal work. 4. We supported the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions conference on June 10th. 5. Our main theoretical task was an analysis of the Labour Party and the struggle against economism. 6. Our main organisational task was a strengthening and improvement of our publications.
It was noted in the main report that in the last year the forces of the Fourth International in Britain had approximately doubled, that the working class membership of the organisation had increased materially and that we had succeeded in establishing the beginnings of fractions in some industries and trade unions and had the potentiality to do so in some others. The conference finished by electing a National Committee of 21 full members and 14 alternate members.
3. The above points define the main political priorities of the organisation but are of course by no means exhaustive. Clearly there will be many conjunctural events during the coming year to which we must be able to turn the forces and attention of the vanguard. In the past the organisation has frequently found it difficult to make sharp turns, particularly in relation to rapid changes in the international conjuncture, such as Vietnam and BanglaDesh. This must be corrected.
4. Our work in the sector of women shall be medi atca va tae swus based on the development oro Marxist analysis of and challenge to the special oppression of women in bourgeois society through the combination of oppression in work, family and in personality expression. This challenge includes 7180M 001M A0000 0331000 311112011103 class and revolutionary movement. The SWGs shall continue to give leadership to the best elements of radicalised women drawing them towards workers in struggle, especially women workers, and linking them to the revolutionary movement as a whole, through their activities and their journal which shall continue to be Socialist Woman, The central political campaign, for the current period shall be the equal pay/equal work campaign, and the progress of that campaign shall be assessed after a period of six months.
5. Our work among the mass of students in the coming penod will essentiany revolve around the queston of building united fronts and in particular in relation to the LCDSU and an attempt to build this at the local level on the issue of student union autonomy..
6. The leadership shall arrange a written discussion on the question of governmental slogans. 7. The NC shall organise an internal discussion, including the preparation of documents, on the international questions facing the F.l. and call a conference in time for the election of delegates to the 10th World Congress.