CING FOURTH INTERE determined to fight for a No Platform for Fascince must towe a joint call for a mass picket. A failure to do this will lead to divisions, fragmentation and uncertainty, It will put all the advantages back into the hands of the NF and the police.
The No Platform for Pascists position was nor fully implemented at Leicester, Leicester showed that there are now, growing forces coming onto the scene which can be won to putting that position into practice.
The newly built strength and unity mast be organised to that end It must not be permitted to break up in disarry and confusion are expected to join in the nation al demonstration marking the anniversary of the bloody coup in Chile on 15 September.
Speakers on the demo will ininclude Tariq All (IMG), Ron Hayward (General Secretary of the Labour Party), Jack Jones and Hortensia Allende, widow of the Chiléan President, murdered in his paluce в усат ago. Organised by The Chile Solidarity Campaign the demonstration is being supported by a wide cross section of the trade union movement.
The CSC has been active in the localities in preparation. In Liverpool, for example, there are plans to hite a special train to bring people down, In Newport, South Wales. a special 'Chile week" has been organised featuring films and a teach-in, as well as a local demonstration on the 14th In South London another 'week" is to take place, again with public meetings, films and a local march. These sorts of activities, as well as mobilising for the national demonstration, help to make the question of Chile a live political issue within the various local labour movements.
The CSC has also called for a national half-bour stoppace on 11 September (the actual anniversary cate) for which only a little support has so far boon This shows how much wotk has lo be done inside the trade anion move TELL TELE MULLUOD Di international solidarity that was so strang in the 'bands of Russia" camcaien in 1919 and again in 1936 in support of the Spanish revolution.
But the national demonstration bes to do more than mourn the thousands of workers and peasants butchered by dave home to the Labour Gavezament that as a posernment brought into office hy its support from the working class it has to break all links with the Chiles junts, and give full suppert to all actions taken by workers in flus country, much as the blacking of Chilean goods in solidarity with the Chilesn resistance It is not just that the Lahout Gener ment has stabbed on the decisions taken at the last Labour Party Conference It has scabbed on the whole of the labour morument by continuing dip зотадс вла ссовот скопатрся ваш the Chalcan butchers UnFortunately there are thom whe the time for criticising the Government: that now is the time for closing ranks to fight the common enemy, ete. But an clection is prociscly the time when the labour movement has te take a tiem position on the policies being followed by the Labour Government.
Alter all, the Best lesson that must he Jehent from the tragic experiences in Chile, is that a left-wing government if it does not draw oo the organisel aurengul of tbe working class in arder ta implement a socialist programmie, but relies on parliamentary legislation and the instrutions of tbe caritalist Class, in at the mercy of bloody counterEVOLCOM
THE REVELATIONS about Colonel David Stirling's strike breaking force "GB75' should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following what sections of the ruling class have been up to in the last months, On the 28 January a group of Tory MPs put down a motion in the House of Commons calling for the Government to set up a register of people willing to assist in maintaining. essential services on a free and voluntury basis..in the event of a national emergency.
Since then a whole series of anti-strike neo-fascist and paramilitary organisations have been established such as Unison" set up by former NATO military chief General Sir William Walker.
MOST SERIOUS The outfit proposed by Stirling is the most serious of the organisations so bourgeoisie in a modern general strike: far set up. It undoubtedly has backing in "reputable" circles, the legal advice for example is spot on, and it is certainty well funded-the allocation is for salaries of 26,000 per year for its main employees. Furthermore it a very free from the usual wild rantings about smashing the Red scum into the nics and computerisation have resulted ground and instead poses questions, from the ruling class point of view, in a quite serious way, It has no illusion sophisticated qualifications to operate about defeating a big widespread or general strike, It aims merely at koeping Limited services going in some industries for a few days until the army and other reserves could be inchilised, Stirling has an acute understanding of the technical problems of the "In 1926 the Territorial Army, along with volunteers drawn from every category and level of the community I was able, albelt on a minimum scale, to keep the country's basic services "ticking over"....Today's technical developments in automation, electroin the creation of plants and Installations requiring a much higher level of them than was required in 1926. Also on that occasion the Broadcasting Authority was not strike bound -whereas there must be a prave risk that all media will be struck in today's circumstances.
Furthermore Stirling has an accurate understanding of the political problems of the main parties: neither of the main political parties contemplate drawing up such a plan [for Col. David Stirling-founder of the Army's 'Special Air Services' (SAS) unit and now master-mind behind "GB 75' the event of a breakdown in law and order', Small, and not sosmall, business- utilisation of the extra-state antimen in the Midlands have links with the National Front and have financed the many 'Back Enoch movements.
SMALL BUSINESSMEN The third clement is simply the towards the strong state and the strike squads, simple fear of the working class response drives it in the opposite direction. The attempt of Chrysler to use such an anti-strike force to. drive lorries through the picket, Backfired in a big way during the 1973