A Fabian answer to state capitalists union law

credible alternative to Stalinism.

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General Strike to force government to resign.

The IS group is not an 'alternative' to Stalinism, but a faithful collaborator with the Stalinists.

How can they be accepted as a 'credible alternative to Stalinism'? Like the Stalinists, they do not raise the question of forcing the government to resign.

Workers' control of industry is mentioned in the leaflet, but without raising the question of nationalizing the banks and industry, without which workers' control becomes a phrase acceptable to every reformist.

The essential requirement for the workers to take over industry is that the working class takes state power. For that a revolutionary party is necessary.

The 'left' 'International Socialism' group uses 'Workers' control' as words to obscure the need of the hour which is for PUBLIC LECTURES Elementsoi building of the revolutionary party. Lectures by P. O'Regan (SLL) the working class to take power through building a revolutionary The Socialist Labour League, on the other hand, has always concentrated the whole of its attention on building. such a party on the basis of Marxist theory; training young workers in a revolutionary organization independent of reformism and Stalinism, building a daily newspaper, the Workers' Press, and turning into every struggle of the working class. made by the working class in the USSR, collaborates with the Stalinists in Britain on the anti-union laws. At every point they assist the Stalinists in their class-collaboration politics.

Last, but not least, in their methods of aiding the Stalinists is their hostility to Trotskyism, to the Socialist Labour League.

Ever since its foundation, the group attacked the Socialist Labour League for our strategy of building the revolutionary party and our determination to found a revolutionary daily paper.

There is, therefore, no case whatsoever for the unity proposed in the 'Internationa] Socialism' leaflet.

It is only a revolutionary Pard bo against Stalin and Stalinism, that can pose the alternative to Stalinism today.

That party is the Socialist Labour League. AROIIT An nennle ABOUT 60 people-many of them members of the AROIIT 60 neonle-many of them memhers of the revisionist 'Militant' group-turned up at the Beaver Hall last weekend to take part in the Institute for Workers' Control third London conference.

If they expected their reformist ideas to be confirmed from the platform, these people were not disappointed.

Main speaker Walter Kendall, who opened the conference and replied to discussion after Saturday's debate, made a determined attempt to dress old Fabianism in radical clothes.

In so doing he fully confirmed the reactionary character of the IWC which carries on its letterhead a virtual roll-call of "left' trade union chiefs.

REDRESS For Kendall, the Tory Industrial Relations Bill is La long line of attempts by the ruling class to redress the balance between the It is a reflex action of the ruling elite, he said.

'The rules of the industrial game have been laid down and within these rules the workers have won more than ever and what the Tories are trying to do now is to tip the game in their favour.

They've regularly changed the laws as they're trying to change them now,' he said, listing the 15th century Statute of Artificers, the Combination Acts, the Osborne Judgement and the 1927 Trades Disputes Act as examples.

Of course, he said, 'you can't enforce this kind of law in a free society, even one that's relatively free like ours. You can enforce it if you're trying to prepare some sort of fascist society.' REASSURED But, he quickly reassured his audience:

I don't think that the ruling class are foolish enough to try that game. The odds are that they will be defeated if they Very comforting for all concerned, but it fails to explain why, if the Tories are not contemplating taking away basic rights, they should go to all the trouble of introducing the Bill in the first place.

In any casę, Kendall added, 'If [sic] we set out to defeat the proposed legislation, we can do so by [wait for it] convincing public opinion that it's wrong'.

And if this failed. 'We can change the parliaments that make the law'.

And as a last desperate resort: If they drive us far enough who knows what the outcome may not be?' REFORMS In fact, as Kendall went on to tell his audience, the prospects for reforms were better than ever:

'Don't let's say we can't get more, we can,' he said.

It is possible to get changes inside capitalist society.' Some of the changes Kendall looked forward to: a 100 per cent binding statement from the Labour Party that the next Labour government would repeal the Industrial Relations Bill lock stock and barrel; no trade unionist to sit on the Industrial Relations Boards; and the TUC to raise £1 million to pay fines for the smaller unions under the new Bill.

Altogether a full-blown attempt fine indication of where the IWC at revivifying Fabianism and stands in the fight against th Tory anti-union laws