IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Unions

Socialist Challenge No. 278, 28 January 1983 · p. 10 of the scan · 177 words

The scan: sc-no278.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 10 of the scan

WHIPS FOR LABOUR'S BACK.

Socialist Challenge 28 January 1983 page 10 in that building alongside the Thames at the bottom of whitehall.

Such a course demanded next ty therefore and gradualness, In 1913 Ramsay MacDonald declared, 'it is quite certain that up to now the power to strike has enabled Labour to secure the provements in conditions which it has WOR But then came the rub. He insisted 'the trade union conflict has become the national conflict; the field upon which it has to be fought out is the state, not the workshop: the weapon is to be the ballot box and the Act of Parhament, not collective bargaining. ble purpose was to form a National Labour Committee Against War. Instead they Emergency Workers" Na- War which was supposed to watch over workers interests during the war.

Twenty days after the war started the trade Labour Party declared that there should be an industrial truce for the duration of the war. On the 29 August Labour also obligingly agreed to an electoral truce.

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