COLD Organise in the unions to defeat Labour's right wing. Union-led fight to get a commitment the 'Alternative Economic Strategy. Along with party democracy this is the main plank of the support, • In large hour part, offered by Jim Callaghan to this strategy demonstrated the woolly and ambiguous character of the AES - a umbrella to shelter both the left in the Labour Party and off racism, attack workers abroad, and are based on a utopian economic strategy. But the extension and application of certain left policies, such as opposition to Cruise, for the 35 week, against any incomes policy, withdrawal from the EEC, for an affirmative action campaign, can encourage important trade union advances. A good example is the policies on unemployment to be discussed at ine conterence STOP labour unions is the campaign against the Cruise and Trident missiles. September, thousands of anti-missile demonstrators will march to lobby the This action, initiated by the ManChester Against has won the support of big battalions in the trade unions. stand of Duffy, and the campaign in Manchester, has forced Bob Wright the missiles, Following demonstration, ordinating Party organisation' should organise in the On 28 policy Missiles campaign, LCC The cold-war Equally missed conference Trade the first organisation classes emerging. on the The Challenge tone leone l the challenge of the and drive the issue even deeper in the unions. The lobby of the Labour Party and the 26 Oc.
tober CND demonstration, which will attract tens of thousands opposed to • the priorities this autumn.
the September the Labour CoCommittee conference Leeds on i November has set itself the task of discussing a role for a Labour and file trade unior Likewise the proposals to be put to the 'Local Government in Crisis' conferencé in Lambeth (unfortunate ly on the same day as the LCC con ference) is another example of how against the cuts can be developed into a line for trade union action on a broad united basis.
the opportunity for fighting for action on these policies at the joint Liaison Committee for the Defence of the Trade Unions/Right to Work Lobby of the Tory Party conference on 10 October must not be The LCC can call for a united to mass action against the Tories. The should appeal to the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Unions and Defend • Our Unions to join with the LCC in taking . steps towards such through a joint campaign against unemployment and in defence of the trade unions:
So while the initiative is presently with the Tories the general tendency towards confrontation _both Labour Party and the trade unions a firmer, if as yet small, opposition is ‚To encourage their unity basis of a fight now, is/ the possibility and necessity this autumn!
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