EETPU's gerrymandered network of
• While it Is not wrong in principle to seek to form a new TUC-affillated union, unlike some ultra-left sectarians
(notably the Revolutionary
Communist Party), we do not believe that the small AT THE end of the Tran-Trag war it was the conventional wisdom that the belligerents could not afford to see their mighty armes return from the front and stick their noses into their regime's affairs:
In the case of Iraq's Saddam Hussei, no sooner had his most powerful divisions pushed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards from the Faw peninsula than he hurriedly sent them north to solve the "Kurdish problem.
Short of annihilating or displacing 4 million Kunds (2056 of the Iraqi population) Hussein had to concentrate his wrath on their leadership, Democratic Party. Rather than engage the peshmergo Kurdish guerrillas, Hussein directed his army to sweep through the villages where the KDP is at its strongest, hoping to terrorise their population and forcing them to flee.
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EETPU: the Outlook
breakaway Electical and
Plumbing Industries
(EPIU) should be built as a new left' union. Setting aside any assessment of the actual politics of the EPIU leaders, the new union will not be recognised by key employers, and lacks the numerical or industrial strength to force recognition. As such it is not viable - a gesture rather than a genuine trade union, unable to attract more than a relative handful of members.
• This is why we say that
EETPU members who have not already done so should or ganise in their workplaces for a break en bioc, leading the biggest possible breakaway from Hammond's business union. They should join and become active in an ap-
TUC-affiliated manual union - preferably one already organised in workplace and recognised by the employer.
The KDI ordered large scale evacuation, and more than 100,000 walked into Turkey. Then, in hopes of accelerating this exodus. Hussein ordered his helicopser gunships to gas the flee-
In a repcal of the has attack on Halabja last spring, In which 5,000 Kurds dies, another 1,000 Kurdish men, women and children were
Met by mealy-mouthed British shuffling or the more robust US condemnation, the latest genocide has created an international stir: why has Hussein had to take such a risky decision, which could yet prove costly?
Alrcady his tough line on United Nations resolution 598, secking to impose new conditions on Tran such as the return to Tragi control ofihe Shatt al Arab waterway, has begun to lose him many allies who cannor