Communist Party recommends Rule 14

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I was glad to see the Red Weekly article on the now notorious Kule 14 or the TUCs new model rules tor trades councils. As was correctiv statea. Inis nas important repercussions on the question of workers cemocracy in the labour movement From now on the bureaucrats of the TUC General Council will attempt to repress those elements in the movement attempting to fight the anti-working class policies of the TUC. If this rule passes witnout beine chanenged, une grounds for a witch-hunt against left militants will nave been laid.

The role or the Communist Party has to be specially hoted. In many trades councils, including mine, they are recommending acceptance of this rule because it deletes the specific reference to the CP in the old run; and because, more ominously, they argue that it is necessary to оготест ine movemen. from "wreckers"'. Who these 'wreckers are is devond me uness it is a rererence to the present right-wing leadership of the trade union movement!

I would endorse the demands put forward in Red Weekly and urge all trades council members to fight for them. We should also put forward res olutions to every annual trade union conference demanding in the fight for workers democracy that General Coun cil members from that particular union vote to drop this rule This issue is an important one and shows how vital it is to take up the question of democracy in the workers movement at all levels. - SIEVE VOK ES (EC member, Cardiff Trades CounRic Sissons' report of the Portuquese solidarity conference in last week's Red Weekly contained one minor inaccuracy: the impression that all left groups at the conference were represented on the elected National Committee.

In fact, a member of the Communist Party stood for one of the 15 places or the NC but was not elected. The IMG delegates at the conference considered that the failure to elect him was a mistake - regresentme, in une case or some acre gates, a porticary sectaran error.

Vi course, one can criticise the CP's This also accords with our conception

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