Imports port. controls. ed trade'. more houses, crisis means that massive .In order to have a rational overall plan June malor inare taken out of private hands, are nationalised, government This is what the The main demand from the Communist Party was for imBut here they were unable to distance themselves from the right wing.
David Basnett, leader of the General & Municipal Workers Union, made the main report. In line with Callaghan, he said that he wants 'neither free trade nor protectionism, but managCompletely disregarding the present economic actions of ine multinationais, the huge profits of the bankers, and the crippling interest payments and But the schemes of Callaghan and Basnett are still far from secured. The rank and file of the Labour Party are insisting on democratic reforms that will severely limit the room manoeuvre of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
The General Council and the TUC may be drifting but posite is the case in the rank and file of the Labour Party.
will be another hurdle to cross for the right wing.
Unless the Labour lefts, including their trade union supporters like Scargill and Fisher, present a clear alternative to Callaghan, they will end up isolated once again The alternative is already present in some of the motions passed by conference.(see box). The left leaders have to actively organise rot lnen himpiçmellation, not sit passively while the right wing organise.
THE main leaders of the left in the trade unions (clockwise bot tom): Arthur Scargill of the NUM; Ken Gill AUEW-TASS; Alar Fisher of NUPE Because they dont native to Callaghan.
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challenge the system, they have no clear alte