terslev's career in the party. and as a strong pro-Marketeer Hattersley was a firm supporter of Jenkins' 'into the EEC at any price policy.
But when Jenkins resigned the Labour shadow cabinet In 1972 over ine FFC referendum Hattersley switched He ditched norses Jenkins and promptly accepted promotion Tne same shadow cabinet Jenkins had After that Hattersley became flunky for James Callaghan and Callaghan prospered so cia ne It was noticeable during the democracy national answers Coventry and file workers who saw 1974-9 as a betrayal but realised that the chief instrument was the Labour guidance of the IMF and big business.
What is doesn't take into account is why Tony Benn was not able to fight back against the Labour right. The industrial strategy failAT THE Larchfield dustrial estate in Greenock 240 women are occupying their factory to save their jobs.
They are fighting the enormous •est known ovune orana name 'Lee' on the bums of thousands ot oairs of denims Management with the factory's the women imminent closure, blaming falling exports caused by a pound' i ne dosses their workers' call for a shorter working week, and after that the 240 women immediately seized the factory, locking out the management to stop any 'Workers Inquiry' needs The doomed Linwood factory - the bosses should be sent to Led, would not right under the Wing agreements.
assets being removed.
inplant 24 hours a day, building rather than a factory.
air corporation, threatened ly That's workers from ed through jobs march last Saturday. rejected strikers told Led bigger profits there. because the Labour governmen hand over local control, because at national level it refused to put power in worker's hands.
Instead of nationalising, it stuck to plannInstead of giving workers total control of an industry, It sought tripar tite meetings where workers would sit down They have now established a well organised three shiftsystem which is occupying the resemble a fort , They say they can hold out 'indefinitely' Their determination stems their from the tact that more thar the half the women take home the especially only wage packet in then tami shipyard the plant marced hundred makers' Glasgow on the shipyard spokesperson the Socialist Chall- back in. enge Management has open factories in because it knows it can make While we Scotland.
were ve sculc back structures government being able of these corportations.
The strategy.
against people in Ireland having jobs most people in this factory are teenagers and have no hope of work if they close the factory down.' Unemployment Green. ock is already 15.2 per cent Now in the third week of occupation, support for women Dunaig up, the local WorKers Boilerrepresentative John 'If anyone tried bacherly savo to put these lasses out, 5,000 workers will storm factory gates and get them Messages of support to: Ms Convenor, Cambridge Greenock, with the very managers and civil servants who The inquiry pinpoints this weakness: 'The present type of state are so biased towards the private corporations tha working class people cannot rely on a socialist to destroy the power Coventry conoi ine ference is that it starts from this understanding, which offers a real chance of developing an alternative to the Labour left's bankrupt