fight In a divisive and hypocritical attack, the Communist Party newspaper, the Morning Star, has seen fit to counterpose the Labour Movement Assembly on unemployment to the Right to Work March initiated by the Rank & File Organneeded number of unemployed must support the Assembly and not let anything divert them from this."
Carried through logically, this would mean that any workers' struggle when set itsel gous ousac unose or tne Assemoly would objectively De acung as a diversion. Ine orner impoand Joneses or this world in order to abstain from a political debate. The IS's Riglit to Work March must be used to mobilise support for a fight at the is a clear warning of the sectarian role tney see for the Assemory gy orunity witn tne lett Labour and trade union bureaucrats.
attack by bragging of a Right to Work Campaign' and a 'Rank & File Organising Committee which in reality reprenauve to mc cal oy Lolas lur new policies.
Workers control can provide that alternative.
both initiatives on the basis of:
ies threatening redundancy.
loss of pay.
basic right to work.
works - to meet social need and employ the jobless.
now supported by more than 40 Labour MPs. Far from putting forward the same old worn-out ideas, wnien subordinate une aependen interests of the working class to a strateaction, demanded:
The IS lay themselves open to this industry participation. sent no-one but the IS themselves. Equally their programme to beat unemployment, by failing to place workers control at its centre, provides no effective alterdue to be closed.
Only policies based firmly on the fight for workers control of production Weekly calls on all its readers to support Opening of the books of all compan* For a policy of work-sharing with no For nationalisation under workers control of all fitms unable to meet this For a crash programme of public For a sliding scale of social expenditure to compensate automatically for For a sliding scale of wages and a The Right to Work March begins in 46 Prince George Road, London N.16 The Labour Movement Assembly One hundred thousand workers at aerosoace ractones aur over are country stol mass meetings aed demonstrations protest strikes last Friday to against the threat of unemployment. The programme put forward by the National Aerospace Shop Stewards Liaison Committee, which called the A halt to closures and redundancies Government action to expand the More industrial democracy and This action accompanies the progress through parliamentary committees of the Aireraft Nationalisation Bill, and the threat of widespread closures in the une industry. Already two kouls koyce factories, at Dundonald in Northern Ireland and Blantyre in Scotland, are The programme put forward by the Shop Stewards Committee was explained he stated that the shop floor should have a say in the industry, adding: By harnessing their views Jointly with that of the Government, a viable and product Despite the NAC lobby of Parliament last Monday reminding Labour MPs of the proive industrv can go ahead.
This is the opposite of workers control of the industry. The forms of organisation being put forward are like the oint manavement committees sETs.
Leyland, which certainly do not constitute a step forward for Leyland workers Their aim is not to provide full information to the workforce in order that workers can better fight to veto management or government decisions which run contrary to their interests; on the contrary, they have been established to muzzle the independent voice of the shop stewards movement and to incorporate them in implementing management policy.
Mass action of the sort taken last anav is the best arena wacre area strategy can be hammered out for the aerospace industry - starting with the opening of the books, to establish the bosses' and Government's plans and work out an industry-wide system of work-sharing with no loss of pay which can provide a gang anternauve to te Blantyre and Dundonald closures and all threatened sackings. and extend the NHS against the attacks of the Labour Government.
The Political Committee has decided to extend the Fund Drive for one month only to meet the rest of our projects. These include:
A tour of a leading comrade from the LCI (Pontuguese sympathising organisation of the Fourth International) to report to all the comrades of the IMG on the results of the recent LCI Congress and to address a series of public meetings. * Stabilising our theoretical journa International and transforming the magazine into the English language journal of the FI. * The immediate securing of a lease for our Scottish centre and the purchase of the necessary office * The production of a series of pamphlets: Pierre Frank on the history of the FI; the debate in the FI on Portugal; on the struggle in Spain; and one on unemployment and the cuts.
Taking on a further trade union organiser to meet the growing challenge to step up our work, as the introduction of a new tougher pay limit and the prospect of two million unemployed grow even * Taking the first steps towards a 16 page paper, by moving te justified typesetting and strength ening the editorial staff.
The Political Committee appealed to all sympathisers of the IMG to make a pledge to the building of the Fourth International in Britain, and to send in money immediately so that we can reach our target by 5 March. We have tife leap year in our favour. Let's turn it to the best advantage! Send all monies (cheques/POs made out to The week to: Jo-Ann, si Caledon ian Road, London N.1.
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