Hundreds of unemployed youth, teachers and trade union representatives will be marching from London to Brighton in early September.
The march, organised by the Right to Work Campaign, is under the political leadership of the International Socialists, who provide the bulk of the resources and leading cadre. A prior dechion by the is, lor instance, led the Right to Work Campaign to cancel plans to hold a delegate conference to pen out perspectives for the campaign. This has reinforced accusations from File organisations and the Right to Work Campaign are nothing but IS STRAW MAN , this opposition and non-IS en sure in these Doctes nave sed the demand for the 'independof the Rank & File Movement the trade union bureaucracy and IS. Carly members of IS do not me trace union burcaucracy and IS in the same camp, but the leadconceal ne uncamen ar cuestons Lived in the rank-and-filist strategy The central problem with rank-andtilism is that while it provides a temporarily attractive focus for atomised militants, it does not confront the basic question or now to win mosc workers wno sull take a lead trom te rerormists and Stalinists to a fight against those leaders, and the betrayals which deliver up their members to the interests of the ruling class. The only way in which this can be done is through a enous Tant Tor me United TonE Ine is leadersnip ruled out unis central part of the revolutionary programme some time ago. They said that the hold of the Labour Party over the masses had been broken, and that reTornism in une workine class was now exercised through the hold of the trade union bureaucracy.
FLAWS They therefore set themselves the task of organising the spontaneous rethose forces organised in the shop stewards movement. This wrong analysis confused the upsurges of 1972which broke in practice with the trade union and Labour leaders-with a break from social democratic ideas and organIsanon In senera The Rank & File Movement, put forward as the tactic by which to promote this objective, suffered from two fundamental flaws as a result of this wrong analvsis. First. it adapted its policies to une acmanus urown up spontaneously from this shop stewards van guard, giving the programme of the IS and the Rank & File Movement a deep-rooted economistic bias. Secondly the Rank & File Movement was counterposed to the bureaucracy, and the masses invited to struggle under the "new leadership' of the self-appointed Rank & File.
Consequently in the last period, where spontaneous breaks with the bureaucracy have been inhibited by the fact that political questions come to the fore-political questions which as vet have not been answered withir this layer of the working class-the Rank & File organisations have decinea precipitately, surrenng a ugeneral ion mn interna democracy as a conse quence. This should be noted not as ship, but because of the failure of the rank-and-hist soluton to provide an swers to the unfolding of the revolutionary process in Britain.
That leadership has recognised that action with the left social democrats and the stalinists in order to craw in sections of the mass of workers who still follow their lead, but no such attempt was made.
Right to Work Campaign is the question of how.to develop a fight for wor kers control even mentioned. Nauon alisation in this programme, for instance. is therefore reduced to the catch cry of the reformists.
CAMPAIGN Right to Work March, but we will also union and Labour rarty bodies tha have been active in the fight against unemployment-even if that fight has been limited to paper-to demand the recall of the National Assembly on Unemplovment which met earlier this year. We will call for it to be reconvened on a fighting basis:
to demand a programme of useful public works to meet social need and employ the jobless.
*To lead a fight in support of occupations to meet redundancy. cal ling for the opening of the books to draw up a system or work-sharing to safeguard workers' jobs and lay the of the TUC conference for the 4½ per cent deal, and in favour of automatic increases to compensate tor intlation ln wages, pensions and other state benefits and the social expenditure budget.
the organisers of the Assembly, dominated by the Communist Party, to wage fight inside the militant minorities in the trade unions and Labour Party to build a leadership independent of the bureaucracy, organised in a permanent way inrougn a class struggle opposinon But unlike the IS, we think that the fight for such a leadership can only be waged through the fight for action aimed at the burcaucracy, not through side-stepping the problem.
Steve Potter We the undersigned deplore the exclusion ot elected delegates trom tne Moss Side Labour Party (Choriton Ward) and the Big Flame group in Manchester from the Right to Work Campaign National Council on Saturday 10 July.
receiving written invitations and without being allowed even to make representation to the Council meeting itself by the Organising Committee.
democratic and sectarian and will prevent the Right to Work Campaign ment and for its march to the TUC ir particular.
We appeal to the Right to Work Campaign National Committee to re verse this decision for its future actiVITICS Labour Party, Chorlton Ward). RAYMOND HOGAN (Unemployed, TGWU 6/27, Big Flame delegate) GEOFF HOWARD (AUEW, Manchester 17 Branch.)
Nowhere in the ten demands of the Red Weekly will be supporting the campaign for it and all those other trade wOrKer...
*Industrial action against the cuts, -A campaign against tne decision:
Jack Lewis We do not have any confidence in These delegates were excluded after magazine.
We feel this exclusion is both antifrom building the broadest possible sup port for its campaign against unemployDAVY JONES (Unemployed, Moss Side PIRATE JENNY ON BOLD