11. The Australian Labor Party is seeking to impose an industrial dictatorship over the trade union movement. The forced administration of the Construction, Forestry, and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), the firing of hundreds of trade union officials, and the placing of hundreds of thousands of construction workers on the chopping block must be understood as a general attack on the working class at the behest of Capital. All the major factions of the Australian bourgeoisie are united in the need to crush the power of the organised working class, to shatter the union of construction and industrial workers, and to drive down wages in the building sector.

22. The Australian state already imposes a system of industrial dictatorship over the working class in every sector. Drastically limiting the capacity to strike and organise, this dictatorship functionally asserts a state monopoly over the trade union movement, bound at the hip to the Australian Labor Party. The current regime imposed upon the CFMEU, with the support of the leadership of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is simply a strengthening and sharpening of the existing dictatorship.

33. Australian workers must consider their options carefully. Only a fool would think that crushing the CFMEU would improve the lives of working people, or end corruption in the building industry. The trade union leadership, of the ACTU, the CFMEU, and otherwise, are either entirely supportive of the current regime, or seem content to limit themselves to legal challenges. These challenges are unlikely to succeed absent the organised power of the working class. The response to the current attack on the workers should be a wave of strikes in the construction sector, and preparation for a general strike by the trade union movement. However, the leadership, utterly conservative and class collaborationist, is unwilling to even consider such an option. The unions themselves, moribund and strangled by decades of the industrial dictatorship, are ill prepared and undermanned for such a struggle.

44. Our battle today is a defensive one. All forces must be mobilised to defend the ability of construction workers to freely organise, and to oppose the sharpening of the current industrial relations regime. However, we must also look to the future, and the road which we will need to travel to overturn the industrial dictatorship and impose the dictatorship of the working class - and industrial democracy.

55. Resolution

66. The Revolutionary Communist Organisation calls for the following:

• All Out to Defend the CFMEU! Rank and File Strike Committees should be formed on every construction site, and hold elections to a general meeting of delegates. Workers in all sectors must demonstrate their solidarity with the construction workers.
• For a Red Faction in every union! Socialists, communists, and all those committed to the organised power of the working class must come together to organise rank-and-file committees, and collectives of red workers in every industry. On this basis, we can begin a struggle to democratise the labour movement, and to organise the unorganised.
• Smash Class Collaboration. ACTU cretinism and Setka-ite gangsterism are two sides of the same coin - class collaboration. For a militant labour movement based in democratic industrial unions.