Sectarianism on the march

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Brighton, 1980. Unity is needed for Blackpool 1981 union movement anu bring able and i Willing to carry their weight to bear in the them out. fight for all-out action to Neither defeat the job-slashing SWP.offer Thatcher government. perspective fight must •be waged Socialist throughout the whole labour porters wil movement for the adoption vince marc of socialist policies and the only way building of a leadership the Tories. LEADERS of the TransPennine March against unemployment have decided not to link up with the Right to Work march on the final stretch to Blackpool.

This decision by the Stalinist dominated Committee, which is administering this part of the TUC's so-called Campaign for Jobs?, is plainly motivated above all by an attempt to keep marchers away from the political influence of the Socialist Workers Party.

Cramp

In other words union bureaucrats and Communist Party members are prepared to split and divide the labour movement in order to cramp and inhibit discussion and thus bolster. their own political positions.

Socialist Organiser has major political disagreements both with the SWP (who dominate the Right to Work campaign) and with the CP and TUC bureaucracy.

But in order to fight out these differences our supporters will be participating. in both marches, and pressing for the fullest possible discussion on the kind of policies and leadership necessary to defeat the Tory government.

It is in the struggle for united class action against the employers offensive and the Tory government that workers can see political differences in practice and choose the way forward.

It is revealing therefore that the Communist Party - despite their mouthings for "unity": with bishops and bosses during + the People's March, have now emerged as the saboteurs of even a united march against the Tory Party conference in Blackpool.

Such antics offer no way forward to the workers and youth who seriously want to fight unemployment.

Tide Instead the main attention should be focussed on stemming the tide of redundancies and closures -. and combatting those union leaders who obstruct such struggles. The occupations at St Mary's Hospital, London and at Laurence Scotts point the way for resistance to closures" -and must be backed up by campaigns for supporting strikes and blacking action:

At the same time unemployed workers must be örganised into the trade And a patient political ployed. the CP nor the such a fighting to the unemOrganiser sup• set out to conlers that it is the forward against

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