10,000 AT EMPIRE POOL ANTI-TORY RALLY

OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth massed at the Empire Pool, Wembley, yesterday in the biggest indoor anti-Tory rally since the Tory government power in June 1970.

They witnessed a unique event in the l working class—a three-hour pageant of for basic democratic rights performed by youth from four areas of Britain.

Throughout the afternoon and evening the crowd was electrified by the power and clarity with which the making of the British working class was brought to life.

The vivid and moving performance was continually punctuated by spontaneous cheering from the vast arena.

The scene was unfolded from the massacre at Peterloo, Manchester, in 1819 to the building of the Labour Party in 1906, on the floor of Empire Pool itself and on a specially erected stage.

Four TV cameras projected details of the action onto a huge cinema screen at the head of the arena. The whole scene, the music, the lighting, the props, the intricate technical equipment, and above all the power of the acting made Empire Pool a unique occasion.

It was a great blow against the Tory government and a historic step by the working class along the road to power.

After the Pageant, Gerry Healy, tional secretary of the Socialist bour League, welcomed the dience.

History of the the struggle workers and "This historic occasion would not have happened without the fight put up by the League and its supporters, he said. "The message from this Pageant is to go forward and transform the Socialist Labour League into the Comrade Healy said this was not meant to be simply an appeal. Every worker involved in struggle today had the responsibility to join in this decisive battle for SOcialism.

He warned of the great betrayal being prepared inLabour Party.

The right-wing clique around Roy Jenkins and Dick Taverne were busily erecting a barrier to isolate the party from the trade union movement.

Like MacDonald before them they were preparing to split the movement wide open. 'It is in this hour of greatest danger that we demand a special conference of the Labour Party to deal with these traitors.

'They must be cast out of the ranks immediately.

"This conference should prepare for the battle ahead. It should lay down a socialist A GREAT STRIDE FORWARD policy for expropriating capitalism and it should form a pact with the trade union movement in struggle to create the industrial and political conditions force the Tories to resign. to force the Lories to resian.

Such a struggle was now long overdue. The international crisis of capitalism was threatening a complete collapse of economic life in the capitalist nations of the world and especially Britain.

The conditions of the working class could sink far lower than those of the 1930s.

'That that is class st be heer meeting Meanwhile the reactionary military clique around Heath were preparing to back up with armed action the Tory drive to rob the working class of its basic democratic rights.

A struggle for democratic rights was now a revolutionary task, said comrade Healy.

is the lesson of history, the lesson of workingruggle in every country world. This lesson must led here at this great today.

'Forward to Gary Gurmeet, editor of 'Keep Left', weekly newspaper of the Young Socialists, said the Heath government was heading for a presidential-style corporate state.

"The Tory government may have succeeded in legislating itself into a powerful position but it still has to face the organized strength of the working class and its conscious leadership, he said. 'But today's rally expresses the determination of that working class.' • Pageant

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