ON BEHALF of the members at Laurence Scott welcome this opportunity to speak at this conThe conference time when occurs al d Thatcher and her government seem hell bent on destroying jobs, unions and the strength of peo. ple like you and me.
At Laurence Scott's Karen kidding ourselves that we alone can change the political outlook of this country. But we can give it a lead. We have led by saying: 'Enough is enough'. We ALONGSIDE the fight for class struggle programme we have the aim of building a class strug gle left wing in the unions and the Labour Party.
This left wing, •similar in type to that Minority Movement and the National Left Wing Movement of the 1920s will, in this period, be built as a product of the evolution of the Bennite current.
The decisive feature of this current in relation SEE page 14 for report of the Socialist Workers Conterence decision to close down Womens groups. A future issue Socialist Challenge will the recent Communist Party congress have led by occupying factory and telling •VI the boss to piss off. That were of being preached to like Hitler.
I was looking back the other dav at some ot the things we've been up to during the seven monts of our struggle; secon dary picketing. occupying, eviction, court ac tions, withdrawal of officiai backing.
In spite of the union leaders such as Duffy and Boyd; in spite of the Communist Party who've been dragger the left wings of the 1930s and the 1950s is its mass base both inside the constituency Labour Parties and the industrial unions. This base, still moving to the left, aims to prevent any more anti-working class governments the Wilson/Callaghan type.
Control To this end it fights to bring bureaucratic leadership democratic control, starting with the Parliamentary Labour Party.
The movement supports important aspects of a class struggle pro. gramme; notably opposi tion to wage restraint, the reduction of the working week without loss of pay and unilateral