Because of this, Powell is a potential tenant of Downing Street, leading a government which would proceed to break the back of the unions, drive down living standards, give the police a free hand, and promote racial persecution, to 'save the country" in a 'national crisis".
This is not going to happen in six iod will see these forces of the right making inroads into the workers' movement and trying to politically disarm it -just as the ruling class are encouraging the courts and the police to strengthen their repressive powers without a by-your-leave from Parliament, and are preparing for the eventual return of a strong government.
The threat from the right as a whole is serious. The racists will be out to promote racial violence. The male chauvinists, moral hypocrites, censorship crusaders and law and orThese issues will not be resolved at Warwick. What the conference must do however is alert the labour movement to the fact that the fight against racism and fuscism are in the interests of all workers. Racism and fascism harbour the growth of a strong state; and can only be combatted effectively by the workers' movement taking up in a systematic way the issues that are strong points of the right.
The resolution passed by the Man chester Anti-fascist Committee and submitted to the Warwick Conference is the sort of basis on which local antifascist bodies and the anti-fascist antiracist movement in general can unite, despite differences on other matters.
As a first step to developing a systematic response to these developments, its support for the idea of a trade union conference on Ireland, already called for by Joan Maynand, should be taken up by the Warwick Conterence.