By Reg Race
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-10-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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NOT OUR DREAM Four pages of reports on proceedings and views of the conference from Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Joan Maynard MP, Anne Pettifor, Helen John, Tony Banks, Ray Davies, Vidya Anand, Bob Cryer, Mandy Moore and others. See. pages 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Jailed Solidarnose leader Andrzej Gwiazda is now reported to be in very poor health. We print an appeal for his release, some of his correspon dence from jail See p.7. The election of Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersle! really means that a centre/right coalition now rule the Labour Party.
Their clear purpose, as revealed by events in th last few days, is to ditch the policies on which th Labour Party fought the last general election particularly unilateralism and public ownership - ani to obtain maximum freedom of manoeuvre for th leadership in the run-up to the next general election.
They also intend to protect this purpose fron criticism at conference by using the big block votes o trade unions.
In other words, the 1950s praetorian guard o Deakin, Lawther, and Williamson, has been replacer by a 1980s praetorian guard of the TGWU, th AUEW, and the GMBATU.
These developments pose several clear problems fo the Labour Party and particularly for the Left in th It is perfectly clear that we must defend th policies embodied in the 1982 Programme. must stop censorship and expulsions.
And we must not be afraid of conflict - there is, i my view, no room for any kind of 'histori compromise with Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley their aim is to change the Labour Party, and we mus so order our affairs on the Left that we construct united opposition to their attempt to roll back th reforms and radicalisation of the past five years. During the next six months the Tories hope to set up their divide-and-rule Pay Review Body, and win a "no-strike" agreement from those involved - nurses, midwives and certain professional groups. Alison James examines this Tory con on page 14.
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EDITORIAL no.149 6 1983 Page -BD RAY DAVIES, activist in the steel union ISTC and former PPC for Cardiff THE TASK before activists in the Labour and trade union movement is to go out and continue to fight to democratise the trade unions.
That's very relevant in terms of the block vote, which controls
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