29.02.1996

No more Black Fridays

From 'The Workers’ Weekly', paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, February 19 1926

To many the most important feature in The Workers’ Weekly each week is the diary of labour events, ‘From the front’ ...

Week by week, the diary shows similar features. Nibbling here and nibbling there, the masters of industry are rapidly and confidently wearing away at the standards of the workers. It is not only the great frontal attacks of the bosses, as shown in the coal offensive, or the engineering situation; there are dozens of skirmishes besides.

And they are all part of a concerted campaign. They are all the result of a determination to attack and break down once and for all the poor enough present standards of the workers in all industries.

... The aggressors must be hurled back and we must transform our own defensive movement into an attack upon capitalism. That is the only hope, the only way out, for the workers.

But in order to carry out our defence, and our future attack, we must have plans. Our strategy must be perfected in advance. And there isn’t much time to spare! The bosses are pressing us hard.

It is for this reason that the National Minority Movement has called a special Conference of Action for March 21 ...

This will be a great national rank and file delegate meeting, to draw up plans for resisting the capitalist attack; and not merely draw up plans, but put them into action!