attending were a delegation of journalists from Britain. car union receranon ustavent aubert, % Sup pous Frd all urgent need of support-send all donations, member and chairman of the Welsh TUC, he had been informed that the Trades Council will have to rescing the motion or go the same way as Oxford Trades Council" (disbanded over Rule 14). After this threat had decided to contact Len Murray to solicit At the August delegate meeting Murray's answer had come in the shape of four long pages. Not SuronsInev Mumay ruled une and against TUC MICO Delegates reacted strongiv to Murray's diktat and demanded that the letter should "lie on the table'-in effect be ignored. This oromotee Ine Most Mactant oUrDurS! from Swain and the chairman, who told the Workers democracy in action at the occupied French printworks of IMRO in Rouen: a special open doors weekeno in June to wnicn all secions or ine workers movement were invited to share experiences of struggle and discuss a strategy for the fight for jobs. Among those The bureaucrats of the CP-controlled cenounced mne arremors or the imho workers to broader struggle-which included the use of the presses to produce all kinds of popularising material-complaining of 'a leftist odour in this factory. But after police moved in at dawi on to vuly to exper we occupiers, woesprede bordanty sunes took place, partcurary in tre printing industry. The IMRO workers are continuing their struggle outside the factory and are Yvon-Marie Bost, an't fight for jobs meeting that it could not vote on ine letter and the Trades Council just had to accept it and accept the rescinding of the unemDiovment moton, next Dusiness was moved he and that was that.
Line wole amiair was not oniy a ione series of abuses of workers democracy by Communist Party members; not only was most пакес orm or conaboraton win und TUC wage-cutters; but it showed in practice that when members of the Communist Party faced with the choice action aroune the National assemays domands or trailing cap in hand to the they choose the path of least resistance. yet workers democrac was sabotagdo ant wit it the fight against unemployment. elected on pointical grounds our on now many votes they can.
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who put them there in the first place. The undermining of democracy in the workers movement inevitably leads to Candidates are no longer swing in an election or a branch meeting. When the Irish Catholic block vote was mobilised to put Michael O'Halloran into the safe seat of Islington North, that was only And leaders over whom the rank-and file can exercise no right of recall can taking back handers, pushing deals in which they have a personal interest, and flouting the decisions and views of the people Nownere is unis more vivicy eemonstrated than in the Labour Party. Eddie Milne, one-time Labour MP for Blyth, found himself out of a seat because he dared to ask for an enquiry into the workings of the party in the North East. The Poulson affair had given rise to a Milne has now recounted his experPoulson. Milne had used 'every dirty trick to undermine Labour support' Nevertheless Milne was elected as Independent Labour MP with a vote of 22,918 — a majority of 6,140. Such a vote in a Labour stronghold indicates Milne's following in the area. Yet we are never clearly told the basis of this support. Was it simply because he was honest and sincere? Did Milne provide clear political alternative to Labour's policies? What was his attitude to the miners' power, which brought down the Tory Government.
When Milne returned to the House he stated he would not rejoin the Labour rarty withe onor was deputy tedder and Mellish chief whip, not because of their politics but because they were the two main people blocking an inquiry into the Labour Party. Milne states that he was told that Short's hostility stemmed from the fact that Mrs Short worked for