This is a minor point when you remember that the consultation was supposed to take into account the union which both Benn and Silkin (both TGWU members incidentally) claimed to support while Healey opposed. The Rank and File Mobilising Committee entirely right claim that the mind him of the nature of the union he is a member of. It is a general union.
It combines factory based branches with composite branches which cover a locality or even an economic sector. The pithead discussion vote system of the NUM is impossible for the majority of our members.
happen they austial tions and covering up the role of the bureaucracy.
recommend this strategy wholeheartedly to Steve Voakes if he wants to play any role at all in the abDalllll? result in Region 9 the next time it discusses politics.
Ailean O'Callaghan 1/647 TGWU LONDON ticle 'Ken Livingstone is right - British Troops Out!' in Socialist Challenge 217 have to be marred by its ambiguity on employed by the IRA!
Quote: "The tactical wisdom of the IRA's acLUIl question'! What on earth Cal. called into is that supposed to mean?
Can now expect serious and involved debate in the columns of the paper of the tactical pros and cons of detonating shrapnel bombs in a busy London the terrorist tactics True, the first responsibility of British socialists it Bripose the raise imperialism's fake moral indignation at the victims of its colonial repression daring to fight back. and the bulk of thi article did that admirably.
On the other however, everybody who has seriously been involved in building a movement struggle knows that cannot sidestep the issue of the means of struggle employed by the military wing of the Republican HOVeMent Of workers feel a sense of outrage at having nail bombs flying around their ears: our task is not to defend equivocate on it quaint little phrases about 'tactical wisdom', but to explain the roots of terrorism the anger, tion of the victims of imperialism Socialist Challenge with its consistent recor on the right of the Irish people to self-determination and defence of the Republican movement an H Block prisoners agains British repression, surels does not need to minc words on terrorism in order to establish it: revolutionary credentials?
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