Than introduced a wage freeze of 5% earlier last year, just whose interest was that in? Was it in the interests of working people or the giant monopolies who wanted the unions' rights curtailed and their wages controlled so that they could increase their profit margins? DEMOCRACY When the Labour right argue for the 'freedom' of the government from conference decisions, they are arguing for its freedom to collaborate with the IMF, Tory-inspired Civil Servants and big bankers to attack working people.
This is why they let out a shrill voice of protest whenever the issue of the government 'obeying' conference resolutions is raised. They know that conference, representing over six and a half million members, is in direct conflict with the needs and interests of big business. If they were bound by conterence decisions, after all, they couldn't be free to create one and a half million jobless, slash the social services and freeze wages.
In defence of their 'right' to pursue such policies, they actually have the nerve to invoke 'democracy'. It is, you see, 'undemocratic' for 300-odd MPs to actually implement the wishes of six million workers. It is so much more democratic for these 300odd MPs--collaborating with unelected civil servants, bankers and monopolists-to ride roughshod over the decisions of the millions who put them in there in the first place.
PUT OFF Of course, the Labour 'right' have also argued that if a Labour vote Labour. How on earth can socialist policies lose votes when Callaghan's pro-capitalist ones so many Labour supporters?
right-wing are so convinced that a democratically-decided maniced and voted in by Labour suptry'. They can always leave.
CONFERENCE As we move towards the next Labour Party conference, the issue of Party democracy will beover the past few years, it has become a major debating point raised by Labour activists sick and tired at seeing the wishes of the movement overturned by a few unrepresentative MPs.
were moved both for the mandatory re-selection of MPs, for the right of conference--and not the Parliamentary Labour Party alone - to elect the leader and for the government to abide by the democratic wishes of the members.
is to win back thousands of activists, if it is to win the support of trade unionsist and its allies among women, Blacks and youth fighting the Tories, then it has to show them that it will pioneer their interests in office as well as out. It is no use passing motions which will immediately be shelved for another five years by an incoming Labour government.
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for peerages; have driven away and demoralised The point is that if Labour's SHIFT?
festo is wrong, they should not be in the Labour Party. If they run as Labour members, if they are finanporters, they should abide by conference decisions. It's a 'free councome increasingly central. Already, Line.
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CONFERENCE If, in the next period, Labour ?