T. Dan Smith: The dream is perverted by his own self-oggrandisement. to be torn down and replaced with 'streets in the sky: Wil son's Labour party offer voters a "New Britain" and working class culture is being trans. formed by the new mass media of television and popular music.
A key strand is the disillusionment experienced by inaiviouals when dreams and aspirations these disputes is explained and Phillips shows clearly that the claims of TGWU General Secretary Arthur Deakin that the disputes were "red conspiracies" were a nonsense. Deakin had blamed the Fourth International's Revolution. ary Communist Party (RCP) for the 1945 strike and the Communist Party (CP) for the 1948 and 1949 disputes. Phillips explains the significance of the unofficial movement on the docks and traces the friction between the dockers mation of the T&G in the early 1920s.
There are obvious parallels between the role of the TGWU Ieadership in the 1945 Dockers Charter dispute with their actions to-day. In 1945, Phillips explains. "In London, the strike committee mocked the official leadership's tutional procedures would bear fruit, we nave picadeo and begaco for the Union to fight for better conditions. The Unions have pledged us that they are going forward, that the official machinery has been set in motion. It has
Socialist Outlook 100 • April 6, 1996. SOCIALIST OUTLOOK cated that the Trotskyists should en-