Minneapolis teamsters strike, capacity to the kev leaders problems Through the building of revolutionary partie sectors of the than ever means today to build the Cannon 3 November 1983 The article on Manchester Wythenshawe CLP which ined a major factual erthe article claimed that David Hughes, the Labour Party National seat, closed the 4 iovember re-call AGM nase 'there was a clear ajority for the suspendI officiers'.
This is not the case. The meeting was closed at 0.10pm because of the ge numbers of nges to the new ates to the GMC. e came up for two Firstly the Naaal Agent had not call ed for a card check at the aceting, and it turned sat that some delegates aere not members of the pastituency party one case nO even d ember of the abour rarty.
Then the Na nal Agept claimed th there problems in the with the ceat or farrer bodos. the wordrotskvist movement loses one of is veteran leaders, a symbol of the unity of a worker militant and a builder of the Farrell embodied for with after the Charleroi miners 1932, the young movement for the Fourth International demonstrated its initial successrun conduct important working class scious decision to abandon his position as a trade-union leader to become one oi of the Socialist Workers Party reflected for us the central'underotande fowlich lies at the basis of our Transitional Programme of the Fourth International since its founding confere which humankind is confronted in the 20th century nona. wroun mne ruson or cne real scurres or che proleraral in che coree • world revolution witn revolutionarv vanquard caore 1o remain lalthtul to the meaning oi rarrell's llle taken in its totality, more Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth Incontinuity of Marx and Lenin, of Trotsky and of James P.
Pierre Frank, Livio Maitan, Ernest Mandel, Hugo Gonzales Moscoso.
method of determining trade union delegations now used by the Manchester desce m sisted that on this matter that no recall GMC could take place until it had been sorted out. Those who supported the suspended officiers were Dleased David Hughes closed the meeting. To have let it go on with all these irregularities would have flouted the NEC's promise of a 'fair AGM'.
However, they reject the allegation that this is because due way a trade union delegates are selected in Manchester. In Manchester trade unions and other affliated organisations can send delegates direct to the district nartv which means they are involved in the body that maker policy for the City Coun cil. The NEC organisa tion sub-committee has been engaged in a continuous attempt to reduce the influence of the Manchester district party and us all the leadership of the ment.
of struggles His con wher The dramatic the very 'commies' cannot be solved but ana a revolutionary mass interna just one struggle.
Jude Woodward they want to break up its inks with the unions.
What happened at the Wythenshawe AGM on 4 November is being used as an excuse to step up the witchunt against the • district party• The blame that lies with David Hughes is that he did not organise a card check and thus stop the attempts by the right to the meeting by getdrag out of him some of the stories about his own role in those Minneapolis strikes that had brought him to the move Dobbs represented all that was best in the US workers movement. If you get a bit sick hear some workers on TV sounding off about how Reagan taught the remember that the American working class also produced Farrell Dobbs, and that he is vorerunner! or ene hundreds of thousands that will follow him and take up his * A 'despatcher' was a person in charge of flying pickets. Farrell Dobbs 1907 to 1983