General strike against cuts AUSTRALIAN WORKERS SHOW THE WAY -Labour movement action is also being built on a wider basis with the calling of a Furzedown College, Welham Road, Lonown question.
Failure to mount any resistance to the Government's anti-working class policies in the past means that the right wing is now rampant within the Labour Government. Slamming the lefts around the Commons has become the favourite pastime of Ministers. Healey called in the leaders of the Tribune Group last week and put them on the mat — no messing around abstaining when the cuts are announced.
In this situation what does Benn offer? 'We should not seek to split, destroy or bring down the labour Government.' The choice words which set the tone of his speech to the Institute of Workers Control Conference earlier this month mean one thing - that the 'lefts' should pave the way for the downfall of the Government through their own inactivity both in side and outside Parliament. And Luton MP Brian Sedgemore, who had challenged Benn to give advice to the 30 Labour MPs who had abstained on the White Paper on social services cuts, failed to offer any answer to his The next round of cuts and the failure to mount any significant challenge to them inside the leadership of the labour movement can mean only one thing - that the end of this Labour Government is approaching. Soon its job for big business will be done. The social services will have been cut to *the bone without wholesale dismantling occurring. Working people will have been demoralised by the experience of two years savage wage cuts and the creation of a permanent pool of a million unemployed. Then it will be the turn of the Tories to really put the boot in.
That is the prospect the workers movement now faces so long as no organised opposition is built that can challenge the existing leadership of the labour movement and the anti-working class policies it is pursuing.