Manifesto.
Programme is something quite different. of the working class.
Take for example the proposals of Stuart Holland - who actually wrote large parts of the Labour Party At the recent Institute of Workers Control conference, he put forward a programme which is undoubtedly relatively radical - although it is presented in a completely bureaucratic way. It proposes the opening of the books of the top 200 companies, public ownership and control of the banking and finance system, majority worker-directors on the top 200 companies, a total price freeze which would apply to half industrial output, and a S10 across-the-board increase for all workers. All this was presented as A Platform for the Campaign to implement Labour's Of course a programme like this is not nearly ade quate for the working class — above all it is not linked to real struggles of the working class - but no one would have many qualms, if this were Labour's Manifesto, in demanding that it be carried out. The trouble however, is that this is most decidedly not contained in the Labour Party Manifesto, and to claim that it is is both ridiculous and untrue. A campaign to implement such a programme as Holland proposes is one thing it would be possible to embark on a serious discussion on this; but a campaign to implement the Manifesto The coming months will be very important in seeing how this "implement the Manifesto' campaign develops. If it remains confined to defending the positions advanced by Labour at the last elections, such a campaign can only play the role of a brake on the class struggle. One of the tasks of revolutionary socialists is to work with the forces in the 'Manifesto' campaigns precisely to persuade them of the need to go beyond this basis to a real programme of action which can meet the needs