SHIRLEY WILLIAMS' attack on Trotskyism last week was mor thers was an ariciate presention of the right-wing line. It was designea to rum a spectric purpose. to ațtempt to block any development owards ar alliance between the ejt tender trade unions. He ste che leashing as the bows leaders who defended the appointmen or Anay Devan as Labour s vourn ollicer. one nas no quarre with the likes of Tony Benn, who a › defended Bevan by arguing that had a place in the Labour Party.
whin unites cven ine mow nigni wing and the most left-wing Labour MPs, and which divides hem all from Trotskyism.
tral agent of social change and PIULICUS THEME Williams' central theme is that Parliament is the sole guarantor o!
rights and individual liberty. Trotskyists care "nothing nev are mercrore nosuie to m dividual liberty, and eager to suppress democratic rights She conand says failure to answer them in duccuatc grounds for exclusion from party membership.
'Do you share our belief that our socialst objectives must ed by the method of democracy? Do vou snare our oener m me liberty of each individual human being, in his or her right to express his opinions and seouences. Are you orepared to say, so long as the system of parliamentary democracy is maintained in this that you rule out violence pons cal acmevement enas vo vou deceo inal. cause of socialism [as you define it and the cause of democracy should come into conflict, you will stand oy democracya Rut to hear a right-wing membe of a right-wing Labour Government trumpet the cause of democracy in this way does not wash.
SPEECHES Today's Labour may find =. useful speeches against the suppression of civil liberties in the Soviet Union BUL bonald's Lader Goveriment re- stalin, Donald's Labour fused Trotsky entry into Britain.
the Labour governmicar scrves deportation orders Agee Hosenball, comrades who Britain to expose the ClA's world. have done more And since when has a Labour Government been the defender of democratic rights? On the contrary, Labour Governments have systematically attacked demalists. In 1969. thev introduced f La blatant attack on trade union rights. The same Government put the racist Immigration Act on the statute books, attacking and live in the night or black peopic to cuiet Britain. In 1974, they introduced the so-called Preven ponce narassment.
Since when has the Labour Government been opposed to the pursuit of means? It was the Labour Governto deny democratic right to . It was the Labour Government which i collaborated so forthrightly with America's imperialist war in indochina, ane today its a Labour boosting the military capacity of ca. Labour has never been scared interests of the capitalist class. always MANDATE And when did a Labour Gov of OF democracy!? What This is as me resent overnmca 10r 1 aliciest wilson never Tougnat 1974 elections with the th cal en or can an ace a. that Labour services, reduce lving dole queues to one and a nam million within two years. And over same period • breached the democracy aDour movement. -DY Conference decision after Conference decision.
Williams thinkers who must the charges of the Irish and Vietnamese OCODIC charges of the shrewsour ounce charges And she must answer the charge of Trotskyists that Parliament is will not the guarantor of June examples if the Portues and Greece as two tories for human freedom' the overthrow of the dictatorships aucrane manocuvres mrane decisive factor. And what has been une role orine socialist governi ment in Portugal nas ano duced austerity plans, unemployment, the authority of the armed force such uncasures a lacing Otelo de Carvalho und house arrest, ana rolled back ine direct participatory democracy o the organs of popular power which shirley willams nas no reply to and Chilean experience above all else thousands equation of Trotskyism with the suppression or denocranc noerues in the Soviet Union is a pathetic lie.
LOST Trotsky lost his life struggling against • bureaucracy Soviet Union. Forty years later, his and of the Labour forty violent eople the • i-deterr which AUEW National Committee in session.
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