A. There's never any mass meetings here.
workers here to thrash out a real policy.
A. In the end they will ciobber the steel workers, and this will particularly affect Q. What do you think of the union ward:
They won't take on the Government - instead they carry out its policies. Everyone here is waiting for a lead, but it's not come. That's why in nis own constituency. ne is a disgust ing sell-out merchant. He should be forAny fight against redundanThe 13-11 vote of the executive of the Labour Party in Scotland to reject a meeting with the supporters of the newly formed Scottish Labour Party is yet another example of the bureaucratic and suicidal policies being pursued by the leaders of the labour movement in Scotland.
Already the right-wing policies of the Labour Government and of the Labour Party in Scotland threaten to throw politically confused workers into supporting the reactionary Scottish Nationalist Party. The bureaucra tie threats to exclude supporters cf the Scottish Labour Party from the national Labour Party now open the way to even greater losses. Instead of this wretched bureaucratism, the Labour Party in Scotland should be defending the right of every socialist who pays the political levy to the Labour Party, including the supporters of the Scottish Labour Party and the Communist Party and revolutionary left, to be in the Labour Party.
As for the SLP itself, revolutionary socialists should be clear on its character. There is no doubt that its founding circle, Jim Sillars and his supporters, are hardened social democrats. The SLP has no programme qualitatively distinct from that of the left of the Labour Party. tionalism' provide any solution for the working class in Scotland. It is quite possible that some of its founders will eventually end up in the SN At the same time, however, the right-wing policies of the Labour Gor ernment and of the Labour Party in Scotland mean that the SLP will probably attract a number of militants genuinely seeking an alternative to the rotten policies of Wilson. It is the task of revolutionary socialists to app roach these workers both to be in a position to influence those seeking class struggle alternatives, and to show them a path to tackle in practice the problems confronting the working class.
This means fighting for the militants in the SLP to adopt three steps for- to demand not a programme of generalities or nationalism but a clear programme of action capable of tackling the problems confronting the working class; - for full democracy inside the SLP so that all views of the workers movement - reformist and revolutionary - can be put forward; - that the SLP should not at present leave the Labour Party but should fight for the right to organise as an open part of the Labour Party and for the right of other trends in the workers movement to be affiliated to the Labour Party.
These positions have to be fought for both at the SLP founding conference and in its development. Nor does 'na
4 Car industry Red Weekly 15 January 1976 ley have consistently pointed out, even more savage attacks on jobs, living standards and hard won trade union rights are coming Increasing number of workers at Cowley have come to agree with their alternative solution to Leyland's problems: opening BL's books - a concept popularised by the activity of the Open the Books Committee at Cowley - so that