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rewriting tomorrow's Budget.

This will now be speeded up.

massive price rises inevitable.

Coupled with this could well be large-scale bankruptcies of financial and industrial corporations leading to closures and considerable unemployment.

A US Treasury official has already spelled it out: We are heading for another 1929', the year of the Great Crash. And it could come very soon.

For the capitalist system to survive this unprecedented crisis, which will be far worse than 1929, the Tory government knows it must adopt extraordinary measures to force the working class to accept savage and unavoidable reductions in living standards.

This means overcoming the resistance of the trade unions by introducing corporatist machinery like the National Industrial Relations Court and the Pay Board. Shortly, nothing less than a fully-fledged corporate state will be adequate for the task.

Instead of mobilizing the working class to fight its hallenging the capitalists wav out of this trap rule, the TUC leaders are deliberately disarming the working class. • Their document before today's special Congressinadequate even two weeks ago-fails to even mention the capitalist crisis or the dangers of ruling-class reaction, s" fat,bandon Congress the fight against the Tories.

Workers in struggle against the state control of wages will be left to fight it out alone. The TUC leaders are determined that there shall be no political strike movement against the governToday's special Congress has been carefully prepared with just one aim in view -to defeat the call for a General Strike.

The TUC leaders will carry out the role which the labour bureaucracy has always played under capitalism — to contain the working-class struggle within safe reformist demands.

They want the working class to give them support while they 'negotiate' on the workers' behalf with the employers or with 10 Downing Street. They have become part of the system. Therefore they do not want it to be brought down.

This means the bureaucracy will conduct a conscious struggle to undermine all developments which would lead the working class to an understanding of the need to challenge capitalism for state power.

Yet this challenge is what is now required, nothing less. In order to maintain rights to free collectivebargaining and to free trade unionism, it is a vital necessity for the working class to force the resignation of the Tory government and the repeal of all anti-union legislation.

The measures the ruling class is being forced to take to try and shore up its economically bankrupt international position will not stop at big fines to curb trade unions, or putting dockers into jail, or cutting living standards by holding down wages while prices are let rip.

But the working class will not easily be driven back to the degradations of the 1930s and the depression.

That is why the Tory government is feverishly preparing to take on the trade unions, to defeat the resistance to the pay laws and the rent increases, and to impose a corporate state to permanently discipline the working class.

That is why the TUC chiefs are co-operating in the abolition of fundamental trade union rights by channelling workers' resistance into harmless protests.

Secretly they welcome the corporate state in order to deal with any revolutionary mass movement that the crisis engenders.

This is why the Communist Party Stalinists are PAGEANT CASTS IN IMPRESSIVE GET-TOGETHER. See page 12. The four teams rehearsing for the Pageant 'The Road to Workers' Power' (see advert p. 4) rehearsed together in Manchester at the weekend. Here the Peterloo massacre is re-created. such important allies of the 'lefts' who, in turn, provide a cover for the TUC right The Stalinist one-day protest strikes hold back the mass movement, giving the Tory government valuable time to perfect the counterrevolutionary police, military and legal measures which are to be used on the trade union movement.

The Tories do not mind these selective protest strikes because through their futility, they demoralize the working class and antagonize the middle class.

The Communist Party is thus, once again, helping to prepare the defeat of working class, as Stalinism has always done.

In the coming political crIsIs, the spineless confusion in the labour movement leadership will bring crushing set-back for the working class unless new leaders are put in.

Only the revolutionary policies of the Socialist Labour League can provide the leadership necessary to meet the coming storm.

TOMORROW

special econom correspondent is at the developr sind the • rise in the gold price.

CHARTISM

In another of our four-page Pageant specials we trace the history of Chartism— one of the episodes to be presented at the Empire Pool, Wembley, next Sunday. See page 4.

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