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conference sponsored and London Labour Briefing proposed:

• For the immediate setting up of an action committee to rouse the labour movement to the dangers of the Tebbit Bill, and to prepare for the fight to defend the trade unions if the official leaders refuse to undertake their responsibilities.

• For the TUC to call a General Strike on the day the Bill becomes law, and to prepare for this in the labour movement by a series of one-day general strikes, beginning with the third reading of the Bill.

• To demand that the TUC breaks collaboration with the Tories.

• Support strike action and occupations against the cuts, closures, etc.

• Argue within the unions and the Labour Party for a full-scale offensive to stop the Tories, using the strength we have here and now, refusing collaboration.

Demand that the Parliamentary Labour leaders start a campaign of Parliamentary obstruction.

Demand that the TUC leaders break off their cosy chats with the Tories in the National Economic Development Council and dozens of other governmental and industrial "participation' bodies.

that Labour councils defy the Tory cuts.

We must call for the leaders of the trade union movement and the National Executive of the Labour Party to launch such a campaign to stop the Tories, including preparation for a General Strike. We must be prepared to fight to remove Parliamentarians, councillors and trade union leaders who collaborate and cooperate with the Tories.

• We ourselves — the militants, the socialists -must prepare on a local level, now. A General Strike will be won through the network of workers' committees and organisations, most of which exist already as part of the routine self-defence and selfbetterment of the working class: stewards' committBB T Delegates at the April 3 conference

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