Within the trade unions, consistagitation around the points of Action Propramme would encrage the emergence of a class uggle tendency aiming to hreak grip of the trade union bureauicies. We should always be prep id to engage in united work sund each demand taken separateand we should shun like the gue sectarian differentiation on condary questions. But equally should insist that the different mands in the Action Propramme quire and complement one anotland that for exumple, the conruation of the war in Ireland uld undermine all social provision d destroy any hope of preventing oves towards a strong state. We ould advance the full Action Proamme within existing lett caucuses drank and file groups with the I of making them into more equate instruments of class uggle. The Programme should o he presented in a topical way factory bulietins, where it 1s sible to produce these, and pporters of the Programme should organised around such builetins. ontinued p.8 machine of the bourgenisic, and the creation of the subjective conditions for the emergence of a real revolutionury party of the masses.
Given that neither Tendency A nor Tendency B has explicitly rejected this analysis, the main centre of debate at the conference should be this: what now, under the present Labour Government, are the decisive links to thir period of generalised confrontation which both corresp ond to the immediate needs of the ciass struggie and prepare the working class for the appearance of org ans of dual power.
For Tendency B the decisive political weapons in the fight for the creation of organs of dual power are those of the transitional prog ramme and the united front.
2. The connection between the question of the united front and that of the transitional programme is clear. A transitional programme is not simply a set of demands but is gramme. exactly the instrument for creating the links between the present con- POULLS. sciousness of the masser and the needs of the obioctive situation. in the words of the Transitional Prog ramme of 1938: It is necessary in the process of daily struggle to find the bridge between present demands and the socialist programme of the revolution. This bridge should include a system of transitional demands stemming from today's consciousness of wide layers of the working class and unalterably lead ing to one final conclusion: the conquest of power by the proletariat.?
Such a mansitionel programme must take up not merely a specitic conjuncture but the tasks of a whose period. However, at any particular moment the decisive links in the struggle between the classes will struggle around one or a few demiands, and not simultaneously on all the demands of the transitional pro The tactic of the united front is precisely the way of achieving the moximum lighting unity of the
We should strive to politicise the the maximum possible regroupment
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Transitional programme and united fronts