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Jeremy Corbyn MP; Reg Race, Joy Hurcombe (Labour CND)*; Val Dunn (Manchester Labour councillor)*; Andrea Campbell (COHSE Group 81)*; Colin Talbot (POEU Broad Left)*. * In a personal capacity Workshop discussions, coupled with the showing of videos, will cover a wide range of topics and current struggles , and enable everyone present to contribute in debate on policies for *So the Tores are back. The bland phrases in their Manifesto are already turning into renewed attacks on jobs, on union rights, new cuts and the privatisation of vital services.

* Already even as Tebbit prepares new ANII-UNION LAWS - the TUC against privatisation right wing have run up the white flag.

But Arthur Scargill and Ken Livingstone focussed upon protest. either localised and isolated or largely have correctly pointed to the need for plan of action NOW, before the whole mass, direct action by the labour moveis carved up by the ment on the streets and picket lines. Our bankers. conference will focus on the problems, policies, and tactics for achieving this kind of fight. MENT *The SHOP STEWARDS' MOVEMENT has come under fire in ngineering industry - but has develop *Against previous CUTS, many union d in the NHS in the course of last year' leaders wrongly arqued we wait for a pay fight. What policies and politics are returned Labour government while to rebuild and Labour councils blamed lack of union stewards movement action for implementing Tory policies. A independence of full-time union officials new 5-year mandate for Thatcher makes and management propaganda? this a plainly useless policy: instad we need occupations, supporting strikes. the extension or struggies on a national *New, more radical BROAD LEFTS level - and we must learn lessons from have been emerging in many unions: but such struggles in the past. under fire from employers and the right wing, some - like the CPSA Broad Left - can crumble. How can we link Broad *PRIVATISATION in British Left activity at national level to day-toTelecom, the NHS and other services struggles in the workplaces and threatens jobs. working conditions and develop a consistent. principled leaderunion organisațion. But the action Platform and workshop speakers include: the way forward.

CRECHE FACILITIES WILL BE AVAILABLE DAY •solde asy *BLACK WORKERS t0o are beginning to organise against tacit and open racism from the bosses, the state, the police and - most scandalous of all, from the labour movement. How can we help develop that struggle?

*Thousands of YOUTH are now faced with another 5 years - seemingly a lifetime - on the dole. Millions of adults are on the same scrapheap. How can we act at rank and file level to remedy the criminal failure of TUC and Labour Party leaders to organise and mobilise the unemployed? How should the unions respond to the new threats posed by Tebbit's so-called "Youth Training Scheme'?

• *OUR CONFERENCE "How to light the Tories" will attempt to promote discussion and give come answers to these and other questions facing the labour movement.

_mO• Open to delegates and observers from all labour movement bodies. Credentials (including discussion papers) £2.50 (employed), £1.50 (unemployed).

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Sometimes a few Labour and trade union leaders have given credence to the statements, usually ones who later left Labour's ranks after having used the Party for their personal advancement. I warn party members that the statements being made today about moles, etc., are designed to damage the party and stop us from winning power at the next election. They are designed to frighten the people by painting a picture that bears no relation to the real situation.

There are differences within the Labour Party, there are those on the left and those on the right, there always have been, and as long as we are a democratic Labour Party, there always will be.

It should be remembered that during the days of Nye Bevan, the Bevanites were attacked as a Party within a Party, and that Tribune was the mouthpiece of the Bevanites. Nowadays, the Left which holds Bean's point of view, is sometimes referred to as the legitimate left, when in the past it was argued they should have been expelled. It is worth recalling that when the Parliamentary revolution took place, there was an upsurge of groups adhering to Parliament and the revolution, • who sold their pamphlets in stalls in Westminster hall. It is a long tradition in Britain that groups within the wider movement A WORKER, Evan Bailey, was assaulted and need hospital treatment for an eye injury last Friday afternoon, August 26, when receivers and security guards invaded the Third Sector cooperative in Brent.

They had been sent by the

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