override the relation with the trade union bureaucracy.
Wilson could back In Place of Strife, but Callaghan would not let internal party fights jeopardise that relationship. some sudden left turn, was why This, and not For this reason Callaghan is ably But as the reBut what about the issues the Assembly didn't take up? In resolutions calling for action on 26 May, militants should demand no more £6 limits, "sons of £6', or any wage controls under capitalism.
In the fight against the public expenditure cuts, the National Coordinating Committee Against the Cuts in the NHS has given a fighting lead with the demo it is building for 25 April in conjunction with the 500,000-strong National and Local Government Officers Association. The policy of opposition to all cuts and an injection of funds into the NHS -passed by last year's Labour Party conference - should be taken up and applied to their own areas by workers throughout the education, health, housing and other social services. Already a Labour Against the Housing Cuts group has come into existence. Building such bodies is the way to guarantee that 26 May is more than a one-off token protest As for women, 1976 is the year of the great betrayal. Labour's cosmetics - the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act - are already peeling, and a ferocious attack is being carried out by the right against abortion rights. All action committees should support the activities of the Working Women's Charter and the National Abortion Campaign, which are leading the fight on these issues. These in turn should affiliate to the action committees and build contingents for the 26 May demonstrations.
Not least, militants should vigorously contest the racist offensive opened up by the right and fuelled by reactionary demands for import controls, which seek to divide on national rather than class lines.