Although it makes clear its support for full amalgamation in the AUEW (of the engineering, foundry, construction, and technical and supervisory sections), and its opposition to the f6 limit and unemployment, no practical measures are spelt out on how to fight for these aims. Broadsheet fails to mention the Assembly on Unemployment or the Right to Work March; nor does it take up the need to fight in the AUEW for the National Committee to reverse its acceptance of the £6 limit and submit a national across-the-board pay claim in the next round of negotiations.
All Broadsheet offers in terms of general solutions is a fight for import controls, a programme of public works, and the implementation of the Industry Act to boost investment. Nothing is said about how to resist redundancies where they take place - on the shop floor; and there is no mention at all of nationalisation under workers control of those companies failing to guarantee the right to work.
As for import controls, at the ballots in all official elections with the membership having the right of This manoeuvring attitude simply gives the right wing ammunition with which it can hypocritically attack the left as 'undemocratic.
The new Engineering Voice being produced in Birmingham is at present edited by former IS and Lucas, Voice does urge the need for a workers plan for industry without taking up the demand for nationalisation under workers control. This absence clearly leaves the road open to the right-wing project of collaboration with the bosses in a joint plan, as has happened at NVT in Wolverhampton.
Like Broadsheet, Engineering Voice makes no mention of the Assembly on Unemployment or the. Right to Work March.
MACHINE Engineering Voice represents a genuine attempt to break out of the blind bureaucratic manoeuvring of the Broad Left, it no no way fights for a real political alternative. Many rank-and-file militants will therefore see little point in supporting a group and paper which doesn't appear to have any major difference with the Broad Left in attempting to gain acceptance among Broad Left forces by compromising on political demands,