Prebble & Co ISLINCTOR TENANTS САИРАС ISLING TON LAW CENTE WORKERS A mass picket of tenants, trade unionists and others was held fast Saturday outside the offices of Prebbie's the property speculators, who are trying to force through a series of wictions in Islington. They have already managed to milroad one tenant to jail. must be a fight to make it responsible to the organisations of the working class and their struggle and not to the bourgeois Mate Simularly there must be a manor a paracar solaan to problenis like that of inflation.
But agi not the need to fight for a sliding sale of wages the 15 say that The best acvice we have to give now, apart from "pot in a bie claim and fight for it is establish the right to per in another claim whenever the workers decide" Apart from the fact that advancing this as a central theme will in no way advance the socialist goal that snot unconnected with what socialists are in business for such a line doesn't have a future as far as even the Mage struggle is concerned.
To advocare sumply more and inor strupees for wage claims is the surest not a fight against inflation. A Fight for The siding scale of wages is the best way of winning the argument no sacrifices by the working class white at the kame time levelo nine socktis!
As far as their immediore practice is concerned, the most disturbing rhing about the 15 and the NC resolutions lor conlecence is their growing sectarianism.
At one time the IS used to quite rightly scott at and attack the SLL WRP Line that building the party" was the answer to everything They used lo agree that the mere existence of the party is an answer to nothing, what is important i what the party does. Yet today the IS has taken the build the purty" syndrome TORE DRICHOS, WIRE AS CICELIOE slogan of Vole Labour but build the revolutionary party, huild the 1S. This has no political line for the working class at all Alongside this is the growing sectarian practice of the 15. The impact of the revolutionary left against 1bs reformists has been gravely impaired campaigns on issues such as Chile or fascismi They see all campaigns merely as party busding exercises, This hat now been Leken to wuch absurd lengths that around the attacks on Socialist Barker by the stale and police, and the anti-fusest uctivity, they have refased a united campaign -even thouph: one of their militants has already been Imprisoned, and even though their pross is Lable to crippling financial charges through court actacks All these developments stem from the fact that the troditional syndicalist practice of the 15 is no longer delivering the goods. He are at the bepinnior of a totally new phase of the class struggle The prosound cconomsc and politica. crisis which the ruling class now laces has thrown ino profound crisis the twin pillars of workane class quisconce since the socone world war parliamen tary democracy and the welfare state In this situation the workers vanguard is cutering a deep poins politicisation which forces it to lowk questions. The souped up trade umon militancy of the IS is no answer at all. and figy look like having to live with this noblem for a lose time to come On the evidence of the N° perspectives the IS today have Jees chance thor ever before of coming up with anything even resembling a correct analysis Brian Clynes