tacking abortion and placing the burden SOCC on the family.
millions of young Support The massive support for the Liverpool, Glasgow, London demonstrations against pact or the the pact the March, the Occupaluis against redundancy at Gardners, Lee Jeans and Laurence Scott show that workers saying enough is enough, and are seeking the policies and leadership neededfor fightback. governmen the prorext of case and working class and turned to incomes policy and attacks on trade found it more and more difficult to respond to the changed conditions.
The old shop stewards organisation found that their traditional response ot lactory and. sectional struggle was longer capable of winning ine support of the member:
In the successive wave of redundanev tha dustry the Hilally layer of shop stewards have disappeared Remains But the organisation remains, and an new layer of stewards has begun to emerge. They have emerged in conditions that demand a national answer national leadership and national political clout. 50, Lo by tic N1 2XIY tom PO Box This means that the question of who leads the union can no longer be left on one side. Part of the shop floor organisation is the fight to conquer the official structures of the union And if the official structures are important for the day to day struggle they are even more impor tant in the class wide struggle against the Tories.
the working class looks for a fight against ELSC Tories, leaders are trying to channer unis Illitalicy peals to the Tories change course.
They refuse to lead a struggle to get rid of the Tory government, preferring to wait for the nex Remove Such leaders must be removed. The new layer of shop stewards and rank and file direct their struggles into trade trions. Thes stop stewards organisations will be recomposed around the big questions of nationa politics.
The crisis of leadership of the movement is seen auSO hane fight in the Labour Party around the policies of the next Labour government and the control of the PLP.
Here again Socialist Challenge supporters must be part of this fight and take it into the unions for control of the bloc vote. If accountabllly impor tant in the Labour Party it unions.
The struggle in the Labour Party will stimulate similar developments in the unions. must be part of that light