are fighting them.
at any price.
in? from this.
But the building of a permanent The corporations are beginning tion.
Jack Jones-his support for Labour's Tory policies will only let real Tories in of the left' really means. United action of the working class is vital, but it cannot be achieved by uniting with those who are on the wrong side of the dividing line. You can't have unity between prisoners and cops, and you can't have unity between those who are imposing wage cuts and those who United action with left leaders for practical steps to defend the working class, such as the AUEW official strike against the NIRC two years ago, is completely correct. But to maintain that unity when they move into open opposition to the interests of the working class is mad. The CP sabotages the day of action because it turns unity in action into unity at all costs and Actions on 26 May on jobs and cuts will have to be built against the lefts and despite the CP. Every militant worker should draw their conclusions of management and provide a basis for drawing up alternative plans which can safeguard jobs - enforced by workers control.
The campaign against the cuts must fight for a workers veto on all closures of hospitals and the like. Maximum advantage must be made of the fact that over 40 per cent of most local authorities income goes to the finance houses.
Raising the level of political consciousness over the erosion of the basic gains made by the work ing class in decades of struggle must be the starting point for a fight.
Opposition to incomes policy can only be built on a permanent basis if an alternative can be presented which comes to grips with intlaThe policy of a sliding scale of wages puts the problem of inflaRule 14/AUEW Red Weekly 20 May 1976 you pricks. tonight, and 'fuck off you bastards,
The intimidation, the rigging the attempt to restrict the meeting to supporters of Rule 14 worked, and it was duly passed. But it was a hollow and meaningless victory. The whole way in which the meeting was conducted and convened gives Luis vote nor one ounce or constitu Gregory's rigging attempt proved to be a bluff - a bluff which could be called because those who opposed Rule 14 had refused to give in on the point of principle, and because the campaign they had waged against the rule both inside and outside Cam den had made it impossible for Gregory to carry out his threats.