united campaign.
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appeal — or Gordon McLennan, for who is politically sectarian.—EDS.
Johns turlear powes and animal exploitaA brosder approach would drag Trotsky out of the past and show the commitment of socialists to a world free from explottation of humans and other animals.
BOB Peoningion's article in last Group. week's Socialiist Challenge was very good, However, it is a shame toat he committed the unilateral position on voting for the Commutist Party in elections.
Bob correctly argued thar it would be wrong to call across the board for a vote for CP candidates, as the party in this country is nor a mass party which millions STR IMEIC TOE SOCIAITSER However, it is one thing to refise the CP watomatic support and quite another to say that in no situation woL wE VOle 101 This is surely implied when Bob says they bot that in certain circumstances we might not stand against the party if activists culture would see it as sectarian, yet we would the still not call for a vote for the CP candidate. himself dividing line for socialisos in electora. work today should not be the genera. one of "reform or revolution" but the Sociulist particular bosses" offensive? Surely this implic toat whic the CP bas a reformist programme we mighe vote for individual actually organising political activity to defend workers' interests?
There is today a very lively discussion going on within the Communist TAL. Some mcOCs nONcE aTe the days of Sid French, otherslong for the status of Herlinmer ochers tead Gramsci, collect lecturers" wages, and are merely en roate ior the Laboul Party and Parlament.
However, mixed in with the chaff there are many honest intellectuals and workers atracted by democratic face' of the CP and the verbal radicalism programme In this situation, it is inconceivable that there will be no forces in the interested in joint work with the far left. Surely no reul fightback against Ene Doses poDcics wa lasc pac without the role in it.
a class TMG 1o such of workers support in the Party CP candidates file' argues that the of bustants i lhey are woekplace Any the 'new debilitatini of parts of its surel such.
Communist Party trade obstacles — The best way to influence those RICHARD HYMAN (Coveniry) STEVEN DAVIS (Wolverhampton) YOUR article The bureaucracy not just misguided workers' (l June reinstates the worst vulgarities of the organisation of which 1 was until recently a member (Socialise Workers Beds).
To discuss trade udionism simply in terins of bureaucrats" and rank and misunderstand the complexity of unions today, and thus to suggest dangerously inadequate strategies for socialist involvement in the industrial strugele The wage curbs of the last thre years bave been able to bite, not Just because of the machiations of the brass, but because most ordinary members have aoquiesced in the official policies and because their :relations with the national leadership are mediated by an elaborate network local representatives who have tauled or retused to mount a serious and concerted resistance Of course the national bureaueracy is important. But there are now more H-EME OPUSCROS H BEEISO LHWT than full-time officials outside the adequate socialist analysis woud need to underscand the nature of the influence and control which such shop steward leadership can exert over the membership, and the СПИтНС OrAS TCHBORSOIP WIA EE: external union hierarchy. It would TOLBEUSELE. effects of reformist deology (whether of the Labourist or CP varieties) on trade union action as To make the bureaucracy" the scapegoal for all the problems of unionisit ratber than recognising it as merely one of the - isto reduce the possibility DCSOMABERIYHICC
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