Labour Women's Conference, while NUPE, representing half a million women -a substantial sector of the female workforce - had only 9 at
Thus while the victories of the left must, of course, be welcomed, the
that they were gained by effectively bypassing the major organisations of the working class reducing te ognited orale recognised
For while many left wing activists within the Labour Party are always tempted to view the union block vote as nothing but a bureaucratic dead
Ton the Party and its development, the truth is that the close political links between the unions and the Labour Party have
been one of the major strengths of the British labour
These links not only represent a historical rejection of pure syndicalism and a recognition of the need for unions to play a political role, but, furthermore, the decisive importance of the trade union block
formulating Labour Party policy and voting in the NEC forces left wing activists within the Labour Praty to go beyond the confines of the largely petty bourgeois Labour Party
Tand to take up the struggle within the organisations of the working class, to
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