LABOUR CONFERENCE MUST DECIDE 18 MARCH No. 142 Wilson has had to go. But his supporters remain. Jones, Scanion and Basnett Lave made a special appeal for unity behind the Government's policies. Callaghan, Healey, Jenkins the men of the f6 limit, the social expenditure cuts, the million and a half dole queue - are waiting in the wings.
It is clear what has brought Wilson down. Inflation will rocket as a result of the monetary crisis and the Common Market deal. His economic strategy has been exposed as a tissue of lies.
FURTHER CRISIS
A tiny number of lefts could block the expenditure cuts for a second time. This would provoke a massive crisis in the Labour Party. There are growing signs that the anger and hostility against Wilson's policies will start to grow into mass action.
The strike and demonstrations in Dundee, in British Rail, in the steel industry have fuelled the crisis of the Labour Party leadership. They will go on against whoever replaces There are any number of candidates ready to continue his right-wing policies. The system of electing the Labour leadership by the Parliamentary clique of Labour MPs will be used to ensure that one of these gets in.
PARLIAMENTARY FRAUD The labour movement must fight this fraud by demanding that an emergency Labour Party Conference is called immediately to elect a new leader and decide on a new course PRICE 10p instead of the disastrous policies of the present Government.
None of the candidates coming forward are adequate to the needs o of the working class. A leadership is needed which will fight to * Abolish the £6 limit. * Restore all public expenditure cuts. * Establish a programme of nationalisation and public works to guarantee the right to work.
Benn - workers disgusted by Wilsons policies will look to him.
Only a candidate fighting for these policies and based on the mass struggle of the working class would be any begining of a real solution.
Of course, the left and Benn will come forward in the coming weeks to claim that they represent the way forward for the hundreds of thousands of workers who are sickened by Wilson's policies.
If the only alternative to Healey, Callaghan and Jenkins is Benn, then he should be voted for - not because anyone can have any confidence in someone who is part of the Wilson Cabinet and who has already voted for the £6 limit and the public expenditure cuts, but because his victory would strengthen the confidence of militants and place him on the spot, forcing him to come out in his true colours.
But a Benn victory wouldn't solve the real problem. Defeating the Wilson leadership isn't a matter of just replacing one man.
It is question of defeating and replacing the supporters of the policies of this Government at every level right from the shop stewards committees, through the Labour Party GMCs to the trade union leaders and the right-winger who will replace Wilson. It means a fight for policies to defend the working class.
MASS STRUGGLE
That fight isn't going to be simply the one waged in the next two weeks, but must be taken up in every mass struggle against incomes policy, against the cuts, and for the right to work.
One important opportunity to start this fight is the National Assembly on Unemployment on 27 March. It means a determined eampaign at all levels of the labour movement for a class struggle opposition that will organise a mass working class campaign against Wilson's successor. Assembly on Unemployment on 27 March, they should send a telegram along the lines of the resolution below:
to elect the next leader. It will only produce another right-winger to continue Wilson's policies.
We, therefore, resolve to: an Emergency Labour Party Conference to decide on the Party leadership 2. Demand that any left-wing candidate support a policy of no incomes policy.
works to guarantee the right to work and meet social need the policies of the Labour Government and the way forward.
WHAT TO DO IN YOUR LABOUR MOVEMENT BODY Red Weekly urges all its readers and supporter up and down the country to fight for support in trade union branches, CLPs, shop stewards committees and other labour movement bodies for the following resolution. If any meet before the National resolution "The resignation of Wilson, the leader of the Labour Government's anti-working class policies, comes at a time when there are 1½ million on the dole queues, wages are being cut via the E6 limit, and savage cuts are being imposed in the social services. This branch/GMC rejects the idea that the Parliamentary Party alone should be able 1. Send a telegram to the Labour Party NEC demanding that it immediately convene restoration of the social service cuts, and a programme of nationalisation and public 3. Organise a public meeting with other bodies of the labour movement to discuss
-2 Trades councils /NUJ/Trotter = - Red Weekly 18 March 1976
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