Sir Anthony words:
don't intend to implement the industrial strategy in the Labour Party's programme.' This story - which is - 1S an. excetent • DOOK called State Intervention in Coventry, Liver castle and North Irades councils, price z4. of a workers inquiry conducted by these trades coun cils - looks at just what did happen to this strategy *story of high expectations turned sour, turned control leading of hopes, of the cannes or closures... Learn But the report is more than just a story: it is an attempt to learn from the exbecause much of the labour Hovercal himself, remains committed to this approach.
Anthony, for his Part get it? has quit the Department of Industrv.
time and pockets by sitting I doubt if he has changed his vicws mucu.!
ne best ning about the book is the way it links na.
hose in local labour move. done so well before, and I doubt good example is the way autopsies local struggles snow now ene Dartenance blinkers worn the Labour weakened both nportantly, the rank the muustlal sulalegy was lo acall witnout ever reav•g lie corndors or. westminster.
Part these architoct of Labour's Social Contrick' who wrote the Maybe not but isn't it a criticism of you, Jack?
rank and file activists knew little about the radical new proposals. So there was little mass pressure defend them against Labour Harold Wilson's lalC Dulcacy. ATIO failure of the Parliamentary Labour Party left to come out against Wilson's tions leit many workers who had supported the strategy unaware that had beer decapitated by the time of Industry Act.
Lesson As a member of the works committee at vickers Scotswood put and the left dic support the Industry Bill Licie must Have ocen some • 11S' That something turned out to be queue; Scotswood was closed une programme W20 resented and fought for. The most Inadequate. As a Liverpool Trades Counci delerate out it:
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'1 presume, Secretary of State, that you Jack Jones,