was in the same period as hose of us in Cowiey, under morement, the influence of the SEL. first National Conference in launched the Oxford Liaison 1974. According to Committee for the Defence nal report (quoted by Cilli) of Trade Unions and the CP this attracted an impressive the Liaison ( 500 delegates from 270 trade Committee in Defence Trade union bodies.
T Chiff backed up his work in and the shop stewards movement books, Ligislation and Shep Stewards in 1966, and then in years later, 1970 The Emploser Offensitv: direct result of Cliff's conProducticity Deals and Hee to version to his famous (or infamous) 'downturn' theory. These books cleariy played In 1977 he declared that a a significant part in bulding major 'downturn in the class IS at this time, and Cliff fre- struggle had been taking quently refers to them in 4 since 1974. Moreover, the locates the major problem, he said, was located growth of the 15 due fethe in the working class itscit, in militant years of the the form of a 'collapse of miloverment of 1970-74. The ¡tancy And sera ank and tle The downturn was partly the result, he argued, of what in different be called the burcaucratisasections of industry, many tion of the with their own newspapers. In 1972 they launched the morement. the rise in the number of Comley car torkers: militancy continuad into 1980s, desgite effors of bureaacrats