Wing class will win such a goviressure". In other words the essurising to change the minds es) of the Labour Party and to organise independently. 'mass pressure by the Communle, telling them not to rock Scanato this pattern. Every militant recall of the TUC, or indeed the against the Tories. bour movement to thrash out the is as the decisive task is in fact to krand file back into the trade othe possibility that the struggle mally expose the Scanlon leaderunist Party's strategy. mbined with the recall of the W7th. The timing of this call is after the launching of big strugnes. It will allow the CP the oponce to fulfill Mr. Gollan's ing forward: the building of the leadership will wish to use the gle is a different question, partiThe second point which has to be got across is that in order to make the LCDTU an effective basis for ongoing organisation of the struggle against the freeze and against the Tory Government, we have to take up the way the conference is run. In line with the idea of a protest-cum-back-scratching jamboree, the Communist Party has previously prevented any resolutions from the floor being debated and voted upon. Instead it likes to produce a vague statement of good intentions and empty phrases that is read from the platform. To tum the conference into something of practical worth we must fight to force the Communist Party to abandon this method of organisation. That means every delegate to the conference must be mandated to support the introduction of resolutions from the floor of the conference. The final step must come out of the conference itself. We must judge the worth of this conference not on its call for a one, two or three day strike. We must certainly clearly show that this conference of labour is in favour of the organisation of a General Strike to bring down the Tories. But the key test is the organisation coming out of the conference to prepare for the coming confrontations This organisation must be based on the clear idea that the trade union struggle is part of the general class struggle taking place on a whole series of issues, including prices. Flowing from this, local conferences must be organised bringing in trade unionists, tenants, housewives and students. These conferences would work out the tasks for the various groups represented, in the organie ation of the fight against Phase 2 and rising prices. If the LCDTU fails to meet this challenge and remains within the framework laid down by the Communist Party an alternative means of uniting the rank and file leadership nationally must be worked for. Nevertheless the LCDTU represents the only national rank and file organisation at present and its conference is timed at a real watershed in the class struggle.
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