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THE CONVENING of the National Right to Work Conference on 6 November could represent an important advance in struggle against the Labour Government's Tory policies.

The Right to Work Campaign has been a significant force over recent months in organising opposition to these policies. The publicity gained by the RTWC's initiatives have made it an attractive proposition to some of those workers seeking an alternative to the anti-working class polimarch refused to allow a separate contingent around the slogan of A Woman's Right to Work', and now deregates credentials are not avanable to organisations paign which take up this specific problem. Once again, the desire for sectaran STUnTS come before the need to build unity among all sections of the working class on the question of cuts and unemployment.

The TWC declaration calls on the Assembly on Unemployment and the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions to unite with it. This represents a real advance in the fight for unity, although its hectoring and sectarian tone still reveals such as the Charter Camappears to have inadequacies in the IS's understanding of the need for such unity. would still have been preferable for the RTWC to seek unity with these other bodies before calling its own conference.

RTWC opposition wards the mass organisations Hass and Labour Party come after gross Weekly supporters will be arguing It whole.

But the real test of the desire Public directed tothe trade will the conference. for the local Right to Work Committees to take up the fight for a public sector alliance as the first step towards building an organised opposition in the labour movement as a This means an alliance of unions in the public sector and of other working class bodies with a direct interest in this question fight on-a local, regional and nat ional level against the public expenditure cuts, which mean both an attack on essential services and a threat to the jobs of many workers The RTWC declaration does mark a step forward, even if only a smal one, in the fight against cuts and unemployment; and Weekly therefore calls for a vote for that declaration. But we will also fight for amendments to give that resolution teeth, to point the way forward to the public sector alliance.

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