We will have served a genuine function in these elections by preparing the working class for the coming battles. More particularly we ill have taken up a problem for the working class for which the bureaucracy have no answer. Indeed, as Merlyn Rees has shown, their actions actually strengthen the opponents of the working class in this case by stoking up Powell's loyalist buse. Nor is it choucit to rely on strengthening the TU strength of the working class apainst possibilities of fascist repres sion, as 15 scems to think. The answer It is this aspect of the question which the 15 partially grasp when they insist: The fight for socialist ideas is the key that will ensure that such a mass fascist base is not built?
This fight for socialist ideas cannot be reduced to simply making abstract propaganda about the need for socialism, nor by simply raising socianst answers to the National Front programme, nor hy simply building a socialist organisation, All these things need to be done, but the essential task is to prepare whole Jayers of the working class on these wiich has sufficient strength inside the working class to repulse a deter saned effort from someone like Powel. Simple physical assaults on the As the proceedings of the Scamman Tribunal drone on, the first of those charged after Red Lion Square on 15 June appear in front of the magistrates. Both arms of ruling class "justice are trying to close around the neck of the revolutionary left.
So far really only the police have been in the witness box at the Tribunal. And without the incontrovertible evidence of the film from the IN and BBC they might have got away with it.
The film shown last Friday shows the police mounted change into the demonstratipu on Theobalds Road,
trying to huild up support in 1hc area by whipping up hatred against Jewish immigrant workers.
When a family of Mosley supporters at Paragon Mansions were threatened with evictions by their landlord, Mosley's blackstires did nothing to help them Like the Nuhave drawn opposition from small housing prospects.
alself with the stirring up of race shopkeepers and house owners. Failure by the left to take this up effectively has allowed the National Front To move in and play on the under. standable fears of people threatened with loss of tvehhood or worsening Parily based in a right-wing Waltham Residents Association, the National Front has thus been busying hatred in the area. Already a mum-
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The task is to build a movement. especially on Ireland around the demand for the withdrawal of troups.