How touching to hear locomen's leader Ray Buckton warning the Assembly of the 'dangerous drifting away' between leadership and rank-and-tile in the unions. We fully agree.
this 'ultraleft nonsense' about over throwing capitalism which he saved for the Assembly and give us an answer to the question we asked last week: will you or will you not support and extend to other regions the strike that many Southern Region drivers intend latest round of rail cuts.
evasion and rhetoric about "fighting for socialism" by Buckton must be allowed to obscure this issue."
asked - is this the role to which you wish to see trades councils reduced today? Your support for Rule 14, whether motivated by can only bring about one and the same result.
Mick Gosling BRISTOL FIGHT The convening in Bristol of a regional delegate conference to fight the cuts end Your Public Services in Bristol last Saturday.
the TUC, the 150-strong meeting heard from the NUPE Executive, and leading Tribunite MP Ron Thomas all call for overal strategy the books and local action committees which could actually draw up such a pian. Nor a any of them stress the national demo against the health cuts on 25 April.
in the area. The importance of this is underlined in a new Bristol IMG pamphlet, A Strategy To Fight the Cuts Perhaps Ray will now cut out all to start on 20 April in opposition to the As we wrote then: "No amount of The Communist Party must be made.
conviction or rotten opportunism,