JENKINS DESERTS: A VICTORY FOR

BY G. HEALY, SLL national secretary THE RESIGNATION of Roy Jenkins and his clique from the Shadow Cabinet is not to be rated higher than the first desertions from the sinking ship of reformism.

Let us make this point clear. Contrary to what the pompous Fleet St leader writers may say, themesignation constitutes not a defeat for the labour movement but a victory.

Everywhere, the working class is pressing ahead with its offensive against the Tory government.

INERS have won wage increase NGINEERS in Manchester and O determination the protect is in their determination standard of living.

DOCKERS are challenging the Industrial Relations Act.

WHITE-COLLAR unions, who have for months vacillated as whether not they should accept the ACT ane register. are joining main body the trade union movement and deregistering.

more the resistance the working class grows. the more Tory rule thrown into crisis. This crisis immediately transmitted intr They dung heaps of bus of case colad ras tion as the Shadow Cabinet.

These are the traditional mechanisms of class rule which today reflect the rapidly-approaching open controntaton of class the seismograph renects earmouakes. It is within this atmosphere of gathering storm that we must analyse the real causes of the bale-out and not pen drippings of the gentlemen from outicher Feet to prevent the Industrial the capitalist press. TUC sold Ration 164 Croydon conference las ACT becoming veal. moved heresistibly leftwards owe ver The rank and however, campaign against the Common Market. This resulted in overwhelmin efeat for the pro-Tory right wing the TUC and Labour Party conferences in the autumn of 1971. But this did not prevent Roy Jenkins and company from voting with the Tories when the Common Market issue came before parlia fight with The Tories over the indusnont With ores Company run away trom a Wilt against trial Relations Act, so Wilson ane Jenkins.

iled born Feather and Wilson ve Kunt now called both Feather wilson order. The resistance to the working of the Act has produced a legal crisis of gigantic proportions.

deed Feather could easily find hir self in the ame court as Jack Jon the T&GWU. After all lones is on arrying out Feather's and the TUC boycott policy.

The resistance the working forced the Labour leaders to persuade the Labour Party NEC by a narrow majority to vote for the proposal of a Common Market referendum when this comes : shortly before the Commons. It was this decision which blew Jenkins off his perch.

Now, all the cowardly attempts of Wilson to avoid disciplining the proMarketeers have come to nought-the big birds have flown.

The Socialist Labour League has continuously fought for the mobilization of the working class to create conditions which would make the Tory government resign. We call upon the working class to elect a Labour government which they must then force to carry out socialist policies.

It is in the course of this struggle that experience will demonstrate to the working class the real need for revolutionary leadership.

In the struggle to build such a leadership, the Socialist Labour League is in the forefront of the struggle to unite the working class politically in the main struggle against the Tory enemy.

The resignation of the allies of this enemy from the Shadow Cabinet provides overwhelming proof that the working class under revolutionary leadership can defeat the Tory government, purge the labour movement. of its agents and go forward to the taking of power. Cowley body men vote to maintain their sit-in FROM DAVID MAUDE IN WORKERS at British-Leyland's Cowley, Oxford, car-body plant yesterday voted overwhelmingly to continue their sit-in strike over pay.

In a 2,300-strong mass meeting, only 20 hands were raised against maintaining the sit-in.

The men are fighting a £l0 a week increase under an annual eview and a reduction in hours n line with the national engineering claim.

Also they are against a claimed breach of an agreement signed last year.

They say the company has Work together and we'll make it together refused to negotiate the bodyplant claim, simply offering them he £2.20 for day-shift workers and f5 for those on nights recently accepted at the nearby assembly plant.

Trevor Sharp, a direct production worker at the former Pressed Steel Fisher factory, told Workers Press the men were fighting not just for their pay claim, but for the existence of the Transport and General Workers' Union branch as a fighting It's not so much that there's a great gap between our claim and the company's offer, but that we know the company wants to have all future pay negotiations round the in London.

'That would mean the end of shop-floor democracy,' he said.

Commented another sit-in striker, Perry Day: 'We'll win this one. I am convinced of it. This is the most important thing that's happened in this factory for a long time.

'But the sit-in just seemed like the natural thing to do. We can't relax for a minute, however. If we recognize its importance, you can bet that the company are going to fight to the end as well.' THE . AMALGAMATED Union of Engineering Workers' executive yesterday officially supported more than 10,000 members involved in pay disputes in the Manchester area. Men can now draw £6 a week strike benelit. Striketogether FORMER Tory publicity man Geoffrey Tucket (r) and Sir Trevor Lloyd, Hughes, Wilson's publicity man at 10 Downing St, are now publicity men for Working Together which launched a Elm campaign yesterday. The two men watch the platform perform: (I to r) Sir John Reiss, Associated Portland Cement; Sir Joseph Kagan, Gannex; Sir Anthony Bowlby, former GKN board member; Frank Taylor, Taylor Woodrow; Midastry director. A Sinister Aim references were made to dealing with 'communist fanatics' For fuller p. 12. 12.