class organisations..."
Long treated as little more than trophies by the SWP, Militant or Morning Star supporters, depending on who has control in any given year, broad lefts ave to be turned outthe AEEU.
While the AEEU would preter to act as a politically dominant influence inside Congress House itself, it is undoubtedly ready to create an aterative New Realist teder ation around itself if it is not aHowo ecoe ne cab or affiliation to the TUC. aware of the gun being held to his head 'Where there is more than one centre or unbridled competition between large unions, the trade union movement is split and weakened -to all unions' disadvantage.' Absolutely right. But what conclusions Willis and co. will draw is another matter. Given the EETPU's lamentable track record of organised scabbing and open attempts to bust up other unions, the admission of the AEEU to the TUC is a matter for the whole movement.
If the 'double E' allowed in, it can only be on the basis of adherence to the TUC rulebook and making suitable amends to the many unions seriously wronged throughout she 1yous. Any atemps blackmail must be rejected out