Action RVIC Ph the wrong people. The massive cuts demonstration last Friday was given no perspective by its organisers, the Broad Left leadership of the National Union of Students. The clearest evidence of this was their cover up for the TUC leaders. Charles Clarke, President of the NUS denounced the IMG initiative of a 200 strong lobby of TUC headquarters, saying that the militant students were attacking What has ever dealt a real blow to the employers and Wilson and forced them to retreat? Certainly not the miserable manoeuvres of the Tribunites in their method of recalling the Labour conference. Certainly not those like Benn who protest their opposition to unemployment but sit in the Government which imposed the Chrysler deal, and puts 1,300,000 on the dole. The actions which have forced the Government back were precis ely those of the steelworkers when they came out on strike and the Chrysler workers who struck to defend basic trade union rights in Linwood It was only when 25,000 people marched on 26 November that the TUC began to make even its present tame noises about the ever lengthening dole queues. The only way recall TUC and Labour Party conferences are going to be gained is through massive mobilisations of the working class against the employers, with every single struggle taking up the demand to recall the labour movement conferences. When the bureaucrats feel the real weight of the working class, and are scared that they are going to be outflanked and replaced, that is when there will be some movement to overturn last year's reactionary decisions. Stand up and fight or be overwhelmed and by-passed by rising working class struggles. That must be the message which gets through to the left leaders The clear aim of all these struggles must be a real organisation of the left within the labour movement - not the tame parliamentary groups of the Tribunites, but a fighting class struggle left wing based on a clear programme and open and democratic organisation. There must be organisation of caucuses and movements in every union, trades council and Labour Party on a programme of struggle against the policies of this Government. A conference and national organisation of all those fighting for the recall of the TUC and Labour conferences can be a step to this. the policies which must be fought for in the Labour Movement Assembly and all the struggles of the coming weeks. These are
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