quiet. .One cannot rock a boat which is rapidly going down; all one can do is to bale like hell and call upon the captain to order the crew to plug the leaks. There are signs all over the country that active members of the Labour Party, just now. in ones and twos, are taking action - sometimes desperate ~ to show their dismay with Government policy. This process threatens to get out of hand unless the rightward -irift is halted, If the left makes a poor showing at Blackpool, the ones and twos may become tens and twenties. andthe left suffer an irreversible decline,
On another front, unions are coming into conflict with the Government. When, this winter, the full consequences of the Callaghan cuts are felt,big sections of the working class will find it hard to regard the Labour Party as their party. The action of the P.I.B. in casting doubt on cost of living provisions in wage agreements could open the way to a de facto wage cut for more than 10% — work force, The left at all levels must speak out now, otherwise we have the Tories back in power for a long time and an even more right wing Labour Partye