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JOBSAT STAKE Another tight back against victimisation and inreatened redundancies is being waged by workers at Keith Blackman in North London, seen nere picketing the Otrices oT character of the forthcoming Labour Movement Assembly on unemployment to be held in London on 27 March. The Communist Party newspaper, the Morning Sta, has continued its tirade against the nignt to work maron being backed by the International Socialists, while the way in which the Spanish conference at the weekend was turned into a beanfeast for bureaucrats worried many delegates present (see page 12 for a report).
reported that Emlyn Williams, left Labour president of the South Wales miners, was withdrawing his sponsor SAiD oT the Mionto work March D6 cause his membership 'will not associate with splinter groups. a complete scandal. It reflects exactly the sentiments of Len Murray's speech against the 26 November jobs demon. stration, denouncing 'extremists' for manipulating the labour movement The latest blast from the CP came on 10 February, when the Star gleefully -AIS DOSILION IS paign.
"I do not think there will be a violent reaction amongst the cratic methods of the Communist Party and left Labour leaders can be defeated is to tiant tor ine broadest possible un ity in the workers movement and for policies which confront those of the reformists. But the failure of the International Socialists to provide and answer on either count means that the Right to Work Campaign is increasingly looked on as a stunt in the workers movement I.S. CAMPAIGN Those local Right to Work commit tees which were starting to develop roots in the working class are increas ingly finding those roots severed as the IS insists on subordinating all activity on unemployment to a publicity cam odion tor is trade umonront tue nani and File Organising Committee. This Dody vratever the bious decirations in Socialist Worker (the paper + the isi, not a democratic open body out is com pletely dominated by the IS - as it it self dominates the Right to Work CamEqually the politics of the Right to work campaien do not orovide a clear way forward for those whom they attempt to lead in the long march. Poncies of nationalisation, however radically phrased, are useless without a fight to prepare workers in the factory to exer cise control over any such nationalisa. mon unrough a camedian to open th books. coually witnout a policy o. work-sharing with no loss of pay, jobs cannot be guaranteed for the working class in a capitalist crisis None of these policies are a precondi tion for starting to build a broad camsalon in une working cidss. but TUrdi long term perspective for the militants enoaded in suen a camosion tney are essential.
Nevertheless, whatever criticisms we have of the tactics or policies of the IS in building this march, there can be no doubt that it can act as a focus for extending and centralising the fight for Joos. and must nererore be supporter against the bureaucratic opposition of cine communist rary anels broa Lett amhes month between the employers and the TUC Steel Indus-