IRA0 Uuor un wan 8 нах 'SMB| ay1 fo Sumas 1780707 uO • риошивн Jo A01A1130 dep awes aul e ша47 01 10u says so pe saul WAN qeas иеш passada pue Паламо pue ONL Todans 8641105
Socialist Action THE 'NEW REALISM', adopted as policy at the 1983 TUC Congress, was the most coherent right wing policy put forward in the trade unions for decades. Despite the setbacks suffered by the TUC right since last year's congress, JOHN ROSS argues that the 'new realism' continues to be the only coherent, therefore dangerous, reformist within the unions.
The policy of class collaboration, the view that somehow the unions and the employers come together to solve the problems that face 'Britain', is as old as the modern trade union movement itself. But what makes the 'new realism' so striking and coherent is that it inextricably combines both an industrial and a political strategy.
31 August 1984 most policy can transformed fringe was supThe AUEW autobiography nounces that.
Labour Party. tinued. The EETPU has become the first union to appoint a member of the SDP as editor of its union journal.
has withdrawn from Trade Unionists for a Labour Victory. Chapple's passing testament to the trade union movement, his new Sparks Fly, an'If all that the trade unions can see out of their relation. ship with the Labour Party, is a neverending struggle to put them in power, which doesn't bear anv fruit for the unions, then the unions are not likely to keep paying their money to the Asked in the Guardian about the implications of this, and that such a financial boycott would make Labour incapable any more of being a 'party of government', Chapple announced 'In that sense, right Today, at this TUC congress, the open proponents of new realism will be holding their silence for tactical reasons — first and foremost because