down of electricity supply, then with use of all the resources of the state against them During these seven years she has dressed up her determined anti-union legislation with hollow rhetoric about democratic rights and the need to protect the individual in an attempt to climate of opinion But throughout this entire period Labour claimed to remain committed against these laws. It would restore the rights the unions, and therefore from Labour's In Place of Heath's Industria Relations Acts, to Margaret That- unions. cher's own anti-union legislation -measures are policy goreed br the the Labour Party and TUC leaderships.
The People At Work: New Rights, New Responsibilities proposals will form the centre-piece of the debate at the 1986 congress of the TUC. If that policy is passed and implemented it will do untold damage to the ability of British trade unions to protect and further the interests of their members. For the first time it will be Labour passing a law against the unions.
If statutory secret ballots and a new legal body of the National Industrial Relations Court type are introduced under a Labour government, it will set trade unionism back for decades. It will for the first time mean Labour committing itself unequivocably to state interference in the That is why it is vital that delegates at Brighton reject the new document and the fudge proposals contained in composite resolution tacked together by trade union leaders to
Socialist Action IT IS a tribute to the power of the Communist Party — whose influence has always far exceeded its membership - that both ts component fragments, Marxism Today and the Morning Star should play a role, both negative, in present developments in the labour movement.
The role of Marxism Today has been looked at many times Today's policy is that of a coalition government between Labour and the Alliance. main goal as to strike blows against the left.
But a question which is less frequently looked at is the role of the Morning Star. The reason for that is obvious. The Morning Star is today not allied with Kinnock, ( within the labour movement - even less is it in practice aligned with the SDP/Liberal Alliance as is Marxism Today.
But the overall politics of the Morning Star must be clearly understood on the left. They are 29 Aug 1986 it is transparent. Marxism It sees its Willis or the right wing Mandy Moore (Women's Action Committee), Julie Fitzgerald, and Linda Bellos (Labour Party Black Section) Photo: ALAN. FREEMAN
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SoCiAlist Action and the Morning Star