Nevertheless, RMT fullame omiciais suca as will Proudfoot use every media opportunity to tell the world that it is all over—-undermining the strength of our position further.
Continuation of the dispute would have allowed Danse managementto "lenaly sack dozens of workers by counting industrial action as "absence".
The best answer would be all-out action, preferably in defiance of the law. This goal is understood by activsts and many workers on the underground, but to attain it we need to bulld up unity and self-confidence further.
This round of dispu les has sion. forward In the right direction.
asm for Blair's politics in the By Simon Party. There is a great deal of Kennedy desire to get rid of the Tories. The Socialist Campaign Group Network is emerging AFTER the spin doctors' as a central organiser for the carefully crafted Labour left. It now has over 50 groups conference in Brighton, the around the country and is conleft continues to fight and About a hundred discussed There is a genuine and the way forward at the Socialwidespread discontent among ist Campaign Group Supportthe rank and file in the Labour ers Network conference Party at Blair's rightward fringe.
It is taking the first steps In the days of obligatory from being a network to bestanding ovations it gets coming a more organised poharder and harder to see the litical tendency. There are the reality behind the photo opportunities, but there is real of delegates from both the aneer at the natnotism and CLPs and trades unions are Christianity that is now being looking for an alternative.
The Network AGM - to be held in Manchester Town There is very little enthusi- Hall on November 18 - gives us an opportunity to build on these openings, especially over the minimum wage and education policy.
inesc issues are central They give us a chance to break through the electoralism that Blair's clique so rutiessi exploits. Nothing could be a better vote winner than a minimum ware, giving mil lions of low paid workers a feason to voie Labour.
Education
The same is true of education. All levels of society are effected by the Tory cuts. The rapid growth of the FACE campaign shows the potential of this issue to link up those on the ground with a fight to put demands on an incoming Labour administration This is a job for the Netopportunity to campaign on the issues that are affecting the daily lives of working class people.
By doing this it can achieve the dual task of reaching out to those tignang in the cou the left in the Labour Party and trades unions.
We must face facts. The weak. The labour movement has suffered more than a decade of heavy blows. The balance of forces is not with us.
But times change. By buildine campaiens on the ground and organising the left in une laoour movement to pur demands on our leaders. socialists can help change them.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 93, November 11 1995. page 6