In the recall conterence called bv the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement meets in Birmingham. The conference provides an important opportunity lor milldemands militants can fight for within this resistance.
to giving full backing to the conference. we are less about some of the details in the resoluton or te conterence org anisers, are supporters of the Workers Socialist League.
For example the perspective of councils Call 101 overestimates me presen balance of class forces, and the tendency in the resolution importance of all questions except the tight against incomes policy THE GROWING resistance in the Accordingly the resolution fails to working class against any continu- offer a way in which the various ation of the Social Contract will be struggles on different aspects of given full airing on 27 March when the Social Contract can be linked.
Dul me cellar anure of tic from the ICSOlULIOn organisers is an unwillingness to recognise that an analysis of the current situation tants to discuss how this resistance demands for which workers can can be strengthened, and what light, whether correct or not, Is insufficient.
Consequently Red Weekly is CONVINCE Placed with the task of clarilying dominated by workers on the issue of the best alternative programme, they need to convince many more thousands who are fighting Labour's policies, of that an alternative programme is achon Evening in the movements led by Stalinists and reformists, and confronting these leaderships as they twist and turn.
than, as the Similarly, mittee s resolunon conference groupings, and a set of Teachers For revolutionaries are not just as to demand rank and principled basis'.
This requires inter- posturing which too tamma April Leyland Conference, rather WSL tend to do, merely denouncing it in advance the Organising ComAlliance goes. mention the need for the CDLM to work with various rank and file such as the Socialist Teachers Alliance and Engineering Voice, who are waging their own struggle against the union bureauIndeed, at the recent Socialist conference plans members of the WS went so far that the sA Mayday 1969. dissolves itself into the the CDLM saying that this body was the only file movement on a This is the type of overblown militants are all comes from the Liaison Commitin Detence of Trade Unions. Strife the Right to Work Campaign, or The Communist Party called a from the sectarian exaggerations of these type of organisations, the WSL appear to endorse them - at least as far as the All Trade Union In the 2 March edition of the SL's paper Socialist Press, fo example, there is the claim that the ATUA (a trade union front for the ation is being offered. then Socialist Labour League, now Workers Revolutionary Party)
*spearheaded demonstrations and strikes against the Government's dreds of thousands who struck on NONSENSE This is nonsense. The ATUA whether it and the SLL, far from leading the massive opposition to In Place of in the fight against the Social attempted to sabotage in Contract.
ing national, Tory 'unprofitable'.
Tens of appear overdue, dockworkers Dances promises 32,233 30,000 dockers will be takunofficial strike action on 21 March.
Their aim is to save 160 jobs at the Lancashire port of Preston which the local council have threatened to close because it is operate the thousands of workers on strike to just 160 jobs will doubtless 'suicidal" to Fleet Street press. But for such action is Preston, as the planned compulsorily sack registered Here Preston closure breaks the assur -cockers nave - been given, that in accepting voluntar redundancies there would be no arbitrary cutbacks Such promises mean little to TOTY controis ine cocks. it means ittit to them that there has been -workers from 55,321 in 1968 in 1974 massive increase in productivity during the same period Port London, for example in those COlA -OTO ductivity increased by 77 per cent in Mancester by ru per cent and on the Clyde by 147 per cent.
Much of these and similar in in productivity, is a result of the development of containeri salion, wrien nas crastically cu ine labour traditionally needed to docks. itself. containerisation is, as a techno advance, which dockers automatically op DOse. DUr me wav In Which it na. operated has benefited only the port employers now a dock such as which is not as profitable as the more technologically The various port owners lently oppose any such nationa planning.
Only the nationalisation of the entre cock incustry can condu this chaos. But such nationalis tion is not in itself sufficient t
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