Industrial Relations Act and the whole ides of an incomes policy are still around. No incomes policy can ever work in the interest of the working class in a capitalist society. The sole purpose of an incomes policy and that includes one proposed by a Labour government is to undermine the power of the working class. Fortunately awareness of this fact is rising rapidly. Already the AUEW and ASTMS conferenoes have come out agrinst an incomes policy from any goveroment. *A complete end to the Industrial Relations Act and all anti-union laws. *No Incomes Policy under capitalism-end the TUC-Government talks, It is the employers and the state in short the present being organised by the Tory Government, which is spearheading the assault on the working class. While getting rid of the Tories would not finish the job, it would be a decisive step forward to deal with this mastermind of the capitalist offensive.
The Tory government is like an octopus No matter what individual policy is defeated it can put aslightly different one in its place to do the same job. For example, the first measure it attempted to use to chain the working class was the Industrial Relations Act. After the rail waymen's strike the Freeing of the Five, und the AUEW's refusal to appear before the NIRC it became practically impossable to use the Act Every time it was used there was a strike. The Government then changed its tacties to using the Incomes Policy and the criminal law. All the guts of the Industrial Relations Act were in corporated into the freeze legislation, and picketing was dealt with through the prosecution of the Shrewsbury 24 and other suen cases. If for some reason the incomes policy laws were defeated, then the Tories, after a temporary retreat, would just find some new way of attacking. Their aim is to exhaust the strength of the working class by getting it to fight one policy after another without ever concentrating on the brains behind the whole attack. There is only one way to deal with this. The Tory goverument mast be ended The massive strikes of the last few years have shuken the Tory government to its foundations. The answer to getting rid of the Tories is obvious-it is necessary to unite the strike struggles into a decisive thrust to get rid of the Tory government. A general strice to bring down the Tory Government mat be the alm of the left, We can be absolutely certain that in the coming struggles there will exist the possibility of an upsurge large enough to get rid of the Tories and a lot more. We must prepare the working class for this opportunity, If anyone declares that this aim is "illegal" we have one very simple answer: the working class has always achieved anything worth having in a struggle against the law From the Tolpaddle martyrs to the Freeing of the Five, every experience abows this, The ruling class has never hesitated to change the law, or even overthrow it completely as we have seen so recently and so horribly in Chile, The working cluss must be guided by its interests, which are those of the overwhelming majority of society, not by what the ruling