They must also boost support for a massive campaign to demand the full repeal of the ECA and its replacement with a positive set of workers' rights. Beyond this we need to press home demands, backed by militant campaigns, for free education and health care, massive investment in primary health and housing, and a massive increase in pensions and other benefits. All this must be paid for by taxing the rich and squeezing the profits of the large corporations. But as workers do regain lost ground they will come into sharp conflict with the Labour government. And when they do Clark, like Blair, will prove that the world over, reformism will defend the bosses' system at any cost.
Labour government settles in .