conference organisers' proposals should not be seen as a blanket endorsement of the class collabsupport was given because the cept Rule 14. Any branch that still disagrees will be disaffiliated. Catch 22.
There is nothing new in the Communist Party's complete contempt for democracy in the workers moveAfter all, what can you expect of an organisation that prefers backroom manoeuvrings with the left bureaucrats to organising an open fight against Labour's Tory policies? 'Left' policies can be saved for speechifying at the National Assembly on Unemployment. DANGER A single example from the history of London Trades Council, in which the Communist Party itself was the victim, shows the danger to the whole working class movement when reactionary bans and oroscriptious are not Tessed. ween 1924 and 1926 London Trades Council was dominated by the left, led by the Communist Party and the Minority Movement. For a time in 1925 it was actually affiliated to the Minority Movement.
But the tide turned in autumn 1926 following the defeat of the General Strike, when Wal Hannington was narrowly defeated in the elections for full-time Secretary. The right wing proceeded to exploit the spring 1927 TUC circular proscribing trades councils which associated with the Naitonal Minority Movement to open an offen-