Irony | Socialist Action 1983

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MARS WARRINGTON The AUEW has pulled out of Trade Unions for a Labour Victory Murray won the right to talk to the Thatche This entire strategy summed up in the TUC sabotage of the NGA and its document Strategy for the Future. Shirley Williams went out her way to praise the decisions of the last TUC Congress and the SDP then proposed formal talks to the unions -talks which incidentally go on informally constantly.

One of the reasons David Owen does not want a fusion with the Liberals is because he wants firmer links between the SDP and sections of the trade bureaucracy. The SDP boasts it has members on the executives of more than ten major unions in the white collar and public sectors.

The Tories are not able to get stable links with the unions in the way that the SDP can. Nevertheless they can form tront with Alliance to fight for "non-political' -that is non-Labour - trade unions.

In a real sense, and by a curious irony, trade union militants are going Civil servants demonstrating against