Find the Manifesto' campaign CALLAGHAN - OUT! magnet in drawing together the Labour Party see why. neides with a deep-going recession throughout many is there any sign yet of an upturn, despite he United States, benefiting from a lack of s the only major imperialist power which has so sent slump in a much stronger position than its ce it much harder for the West European capitboom. Worst hit will be the archaic, undern structural decay. previously wrung out of the employers with If the E6 limit is maintained it will represent a average. Even this will not be enough to overight down to 10 per cent — the rate of its main xpenditure will also be needed. These could lent has firmly turned the clock back. The elecaded capitalist realism. Health, education, housnocratic dream — are now being pared to the The mystique which capitalism has woven around the positions of party leader and Prime Minister must be demolished. How ludicrous it was for Eric Heffer to write in Tribune at the height of the EEC campaign that the issue of the leadership was not in question. Eric Heffer himself has stood in the trade union movement against rightwing candidates for positions their removal. Why should he draw back against calling for the removal of the very person who was acting as the agent of the ruling class in the EEC debate and vote? al actions.
- he favoured For a whole period the better-organised workers screwed higher wages and improved conditions out of the employers largely through struggles in individual factories. The enormous growth of the shop stewards' movement in the late 1950s and 1960s reflected this. At the same time there was a big reduction in working class membership inside the Labour Party. Living standards rose more by dint of sectoral trade union struggle than as a result of any governmentEven the 1969-71 recession did not sap the confidence of the working class. Occupations became a standard form of struggle against redundancies. But while workers at places like UCS, Briant's, and Fisher-Bendix rejected the idea of the sack in this way, they fought mainly with the aim of finding another employer to take over the business. Assuming that, as in the past, there would shortly be another upturn in the economy, the idea of regaining profitability under a new and more efficient management seemed to them a credible solution.