workers voted for a strike proposal to suspend inevitable, and when it came down — and the chair, Tony Jaguar Instead they insisted wording insisted that even if Not surprisingly the strike to Cowley. Longbridge and of lighting the unscrupulous running overtime ban, and Two mass meetings were recommendation was voted ballot was lost — and now against attempts by union voted to reject a stewards negotiate the best possible leadership has once again workers are on throe-shift militaner that could have almost all 1,800 Swindon the body plant as well as - voted tine and again leaders to lift their long: Ar Swindon, stewards staged a half-day strike, However, the ago-old brought the end of both that the new shifts were: the stewards would still the overtime ban. Most held. The first beard a members thought this problem of the onion management proved to ban overtime. insurmnuntable. stewards' working- асподя. deal.
through a resolution for a rule- anyway within two years, and commitment to class action is. a major embarrassment to CP only be an arrack on Scargill. since Perer Heathfield will go. his successor will face regular stand against concessions un fall-ume positions This can elections and re-clection of chunge next year to force re-clection under existing There is no doubt that Scargill's continuing firm back-stabbing campaign the working week and NUM conference ignores sacked miners 'Derbeshire' options which are •an NUM working party To backed up by provision for a national delegate conference central to the Wheeler Plan. • opposition to the varinus Doncaster", Kellingly and salaried basis to incorporate Nots NUM condemns the Coal Board's attacks on the the incentive bonus scheme strategy to mangement's incentive schemes — the draw up an alternative into the weekly wage Wheeler Plan Doncaster' Imprisoned Kent miner, KENT government! now an return of a Labour Gary Hewell. However the agenda for this substance now that Thätcher's action to fight Tory arracks — calling for action by the next THE ENTHIUSIASTIC response clection victory has squashed showed thar militancy is still hitting speech at this year's alive and well in the NUM. especially his call for direct vear's NUM conference in to Arthur Scargill's hard: the life our of resolutions Yorkshire miners gala — Rothesay offers little of Labour government!!
renewed management offensive lighting left wing rank and file In this he must be delended by NUM militants, while the seeking to compromise with which will take shape under and sott left area leadeshups is essentiad to beat back the further organisation of a Thatcher's third term British Coal bosses. Yorkshire NUM WILLIAM HEAD resolutions from South Wales week and insists: "we should Communist Party-led anti- stick to the adage of not a NALGO conference swings left working day and working Scargillites continuc their penny off the pay, not a proposals or changes in controversial Margam However. Scotland None of the three minule on the day arca incotions the working practices emergency resolution is needed industrial action to secure their tabled a string of amendments: tn commit the union to further working work and 'incentive' drive to speed-up, the longer course pay, the management debate at conference are of The Yorkshire area has The main issues up for • increased wages un a reinstatement. agreements. calling for: demands is there any reference proposals on the next steps in months prior to the election. to the miners still sacked and focussed largely on detensive had been told to wait for the These class war casualtics victimised as a result of the 1981-5 strike. There are no remarkably solid strikes in Nowhere in an agenda their support in the lew reinstatemont, despite the fight for their
national executive is strongest was the lack of discussion and NALGO members are going questions, as on the question local government, clectricity to be in the lurefront of new against the privatisation uf weakness of the conference ul pay, thar the grip of the Tory attacks on all public services, and in the light strategy on these crucial and water. The biggest issues. Tris on these DINALGO Briefing- move spearheaded by NAGO'S group included support for the members group. Other gains deportation of Viraj Mendis; increasingly influential black and a motion instructing the NEX: not to employ fascists — administrators, 'Strasserite? disaffiliate from the Trade Union Friends of Israel, a NF-er Paul Kingsley, The Icd by the black members revelations about une of i move sparked off by campaign against the NALCO's branch government's slave labour Job the lent. The last similar ballor campaign will produce a more "no" vote. Only a substantial determination to haycott the the TGWU and may result in which has been followed by This would pur in question the Tuc pulling out as well. in 1982 resulted in a heavy favourable restit this time Traning Scheme, a move the TUC's role in all MSC NALGO reaffirmed its schemes. seats on the union's 70-person left. Despite the failure of the viable national movement on Britain's biggest white collar conference was considerable. surge in the influence of the executive, or to construct a The first and major step: forward was the decision to THIS YEAR'S Blackpool ballot NALCO members.on left in recent years lo win union, saw an important the left, its influence ar conference of NALGO,
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 2 July/Augue: 1987 national nirganised left wing. a Morning Star supporters But The left in the union, despite structures by the Militani and organise around these Issues. curu this around, and follow conference victories, will be political fund could begin to result of sabotage of several hampered by the lack of a successful campaign for a victories with more solid In doing so; it will be up the left's conference tested on its ability to successive Broad Left organisational gains. affiliate to the Narional Jurice catured sacked miners leader meeting at conference was the Labour" con-of-election rally: group and Carolne Sikorski Farah of the black members sponsored by NALGO Brichnig and the Morning Star, which Hicks of Sogar '82, Wayne conference also decided to member Jim White. Mike Terry French, executive The bigger left fringe for Miners Campaign. 400-strong NAICO for Terrorism Act. The resolution Diplock courts, plastic bullets Conference also decided to radical than the policy of any executive managed to amend Policy victories for the left resolution on Ireland, morc long-term solutiun, but the other union, calling for an it to include the words by included the adoption of a Ireland, as the only just also called for a united end to strip scarching. and the P'revention of peaceful means': union legislation by financing direct result of the high court million pound Make People Matter campaign in defence fund is a major challenge for the campaign out of normal judgement against NALGO's court lound that the unton union funds, rather than a The ballor for a political of the public services. The had broken the 1984 trade sctting up a political lund: This move, backed by the national executive, was a political fund, during an election period.
effectively a colonial proxy are Palestinian people one iota. Lt does, however, have profound implications for their national after all, preciscly why they termis of defining objectives liberation struggle, both in powers for whom they are countries with which most between Israclis and other are there! The imperialist Israelis have no historical This crucial difference colonial peoples dues not alleviate the plight of the successfully prosecuted and in how it can be secure sanctuary dues soem to be a wise precaution. Ir is the cunvincing alterative to satisty Jewish polirics: Revolutionary The spergh feature of zionion zionism's near hegemony of other modern settler colonisation ancialism has vet to offer a which distinguisher it from all but the establishment of a replanted but totally replornd: Prople cure not thensiore to be desire for such sanctuary which forms the basis of modements i that it wanted ERS support which have leaderships John Turkie is corrort to say movements does John Turkie hands are dirty and bloody- or tendencies within it whose particularly pernicious error. struggles, often laying down many, I'm sur. But on the zionist leadership may have played a despicable role in relation to the light against To be sure, sections of the anti-semitism How many ground zionists have been that there is, ultimatels, a actively involved in such berween the two. The article is proving his intended objective wrong propositions which are Socialist Outlook No. 1, 'Anti- ease with which anti-zionism of showing a clear difference inadvertantly highlights the donism and anti-semitism? can slip into concessions to spattered with dangerously Zionism and anti- anti-semitism, rather than John Turkie's article in grist to the mill to anti- Dear comrades, semitism
Isracli state itself. John Turkie of anti-semitic myth. Needlesss associating their struggles with unconsciously, from the world to say, he is doing no favours Palestinian people by zionist colonisation and then by the suffering inflicted upon the opposition to zuinism rests s doing no favours for the 1 am not a zionist. My primarily on the terrible Palestinian people by ideas taken, however for Jows either. Dave Landau, colonialists engaged in a policy and New Zealand was similar, There is, however, a unique colonialism, The colonisating felture of zionist colunisation of North America, Australia which John Tutkie omite to. abscoce of any homeland is. These features are by no ol curright genocide cather imperialist bomeland. The means unique to cionist only in these cases, the peoples du not have au tan displacement and dispossession. been imposed by a vast history we go and whatever we.do. we have no guarantee of survival. After all, other peoples have Teaching Jews that, wherever position. What he refuses to Traders: History seems to be defeariss logic in the zionist: rights throughout the world, understand is thar logic has been wiped out entirely in history, Clearly we should stand up and fight for nor of persecution, terror and reactionary ideas of a lew monist philosophers and genocide, noc by the Aritagr of a long historical past! Quiton) and which, il followed cunclusion that socialists ought This is a notion which sadly becomes clear later on in Jolin has a pedigree which includes 1The primant commercial and does in thar toxt, leads to the to be fundamenrally opposed definition of Judaisue (and T stupidity of this proposition Marx himself (On Me Jessich through Ingically, as Marx to Judaism "because of its Turkie's article, when, in artisan character el Judgim, petty bourgeuis essence" arguing against a racial
however, explain why this is a with a good education you can write miles of polemics, but to think in terms of organising a admits that it is possible that BE a revolutionary you must fightback that is based firmly socialists will seck solutions The Lister/Hearse article outside the (Labour) Party' It is easy to claim to be a revolutionary socialist, and and claims that this is a They do not. in the working class. within it is there for all to see. difficult to assess anything for Party and the fate of socialists neser been even a mouthpicce Thus only by looking at the undemiable organic link with Party, from its inception has The fact is that despite its backuround of the Labour Labour Party that we can the working class (via the the future. The historical origins and history of the trade unions) the Labour understand its dynamics there, he tuches most of ther but fails to construct anything. Lister is like watching a small insuc of Socialist Cuttook is to Reading articles by John The piece he co-wrore with child playing with building Phil Hearse in the opening bricks — all the bricks are yourselves in the Labour Party! Stop burying diversity of world Jewry which position in which Jows were to context in which John Turkie curopean Jewry in the period Looking specifically at the demonstrares the enormous cannot conceivably have an agree with him on that he cconomic homogencity any be found. The commercial character of Judaism' is an diversity in the cconomic leading up to the rise of anti-senutic myth: John. fascisen, we sce a wide is making his elain - more than a racial homogeneity.
Some good class fighters will continue to bury themselves in the Labour Party. No amount revolutionary or come outside. and fusing. Meanwhile I shall academics will carry on their fighting socialist organisation The alternatives are quite of pedantic pontification can irrelevant sniping, splitting the warmth of the Labour Party and many sectarian - the Socialisr Workers' clear then: stop being a continue to help build a alter that basic fact. D. Hammond, that has stood by working class. It is clear to all but the most the whole machine is geared to one is akin to de railing a train Toad - even if vou change the marginalised or drummed out driver it simply isn'T going to will always be the case. How reformism? To wry and make aspirations and any socialist can it be any different when and expecting it to travel by be smogged minds than this the Labour Party a socialist prociples has been cither for militant working class the parliamentary road ro of the party kind of analytical and political the coming bactes against the the working class have arrived understanding how the left or the hismrical background it is now in. Yer withour knowing that claims to provide the substitute for understanding the dynamics of the "various at the situation that they are Endless academic articles Much of the article was wings and lavers' of that taken up with bald facts .. hureaucracy" are no without any attempt at approach that is vital SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 2 July/Augur 1987 agatur and semitiom, Jews should conclusion of zionist principles saying that zionists actually do is to abandon the fight against anti-semitism or whether he is There is an ambiguity bere as to whether john Turkie is always abandon this struggle. Turkie should know better. than waste time m a futile fight Zionzim copitulates to dan- I he means the latter, he is simply wrong and this is a amply emigrate to a Jewish According to zibrum. saying that the logical
will be different views on what the atritude of Already there have been idea of more of the same with some oppor- policies like who needs anotber? The only way to con- wince the middle ground is to step up extra parliamentary activity to show them that you mcan what you say. To flatter and parronise people cynically means you get treated with The major issue at the convention will be