IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Once more on democracy

Socialist Challenge No. 219, 29 October 1981 · p. 12 of the scan · 248 words

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page 12 of the scan

delegates were well-organised. This was HICOSE certainly the case. CLPD's Women's Action Committee managed to organise WORLET get positive discrimination on the agenda but that all.

Women involved

THE LABOUR left often argues for only limited mess meata case, resolutions passed without coming out of a mass campaign are not worth the paper they are written on.

maximises the influence of the media ducted with ultimate authority going to regular mass meetngs of the strikers.

the Labour leadership and the big issues (for example tion with the membership carried out through plenary branches.

CHRIS ARTHUR Brighton democracy in the movement (for example, all power to General Management Committees/ on the grounds that the rank and file are subject to the mystifications of the Unfortunately, this attitude sometimes appears in Socialist Challenge. But if we can't convince the labour movement rank und file, who can we convince? In any Of course the establishment media influences the rank and file; but the answer is not to exclude them but to subject them to contrary influences. The postal ballot Collective discussion und decisions help us. Socialist Challenge correctly argues that all strikes should be conTo be consistent with that we should campuign for unilateralism) to be decided on the basis of full consultameetings of the constituency parties and the trade union

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PS it would be most interesting to hear union by union how the recent consultation/failure to consult has af. fected consciousness among the membership.

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