The forces apposing the Government's policies are fragmented and isolated. Numerous strikes have been beaten because the workers concerned have been left to fight by themselves, The traditional weapon of the working class has always been unity. It is necessary to re-create that unity which has been shattered by Wilson going over to Toryism and the failure of sections ef the left to fight this. But unity cannet be an excuse for watering dewn one's principles. There are many cases of people who have started off by saying that “we must have a milder programme in the interests of unity" and have ended up in Wilson's Cabinet doing his dirtiest work. We need unity on the basis ef a hard, uncompromising programme: one which will mebilise .and wnite trade unionists in a fight on the issues of the day; yet one, if carried out, which would lead te real inroads into capitalist power. This programme must not be entirely on the defensive, unless we start attacking capitalist power we can never think in terms ef building socialism. Ee Week offers some ideas as to what the programme of struggle should be. We do se
the spirit of not claiming te know all the answers, we would very much like to hear from others what they think of our programme and our propesals for the united front, neretely, we suggest:
e Immediate abolition of the wage freeze and anti-trade union legislation; 2) re-iteration of the principle of full freedom of negotiatiens by unions; (3) a sliding scéle of wages to compensate for increases in the cost ef living; 4) abolition of poverty through increased welfare payments; 5) huge cuts in military expenditure; 6) nationalisation of the commanding heights of industry under workers' control; 7) @ workers' plan for the development of the British economy, including the solving of the balance of payments problem by more east/west trade and long term credits and trade agreements with under-developed countries; (8) opening of the books of all employers, and workers councils in all places of work to control hiring and firing, welfare allocations, etc.; (9) a socialist foreign policy, with Labour en the side of the oppressed; and (10) a call for an all-European conference of labour to meet the threat to workers’ conditiens pesed by the Common Market and the greater unity ef European capitalism,