Policies | IMGpapers 1980

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The aim is to discuss ways of organising, the policies which will build and estile strength and confidence The trade council inquiry itself pointed to wealth of and organisatons wilch recu be extended and generalised. Sanest WELC mainly in manufacturing industry. held under the auspices of Coventrv frades Council. is an attempt to widen the OSCUSSION The trades councils are concerned about ine implicit assumption much of the left's Labour Party: that the policies basically all sorted out, in the form of the Alternative Economic Strategy agreed at the 1980 special conference, and that the only problem is to ensure inat Labour MPs will carry them through. Strategy The inquiry is more sceptical about the policies themselves, and also the way they nave been drawn up and packaged without any real novent the shop stewards' committees ana uraue umon branches on whose support the Labour left argue that their policies depend. Challenge most Socialist readers would agree, policies which really challenge the power of based need to workers' power. And that power cannot be turned on It means providing a forum for the shop stewards' combine committees and others on a naLolla level who have n't keep you a minute, Jactizon just lixo you to participate Alliances The trades argue that there are few forums through which this kind of political trade develop; alliances can made between workers in the private and public manufacturing sectors and inose in une wesare stale trade unionists organised and women women, the employed and the unemployed.

Limits A third important line of thinking conference conclus limits of the trade council report itself. Although the of the book Coventry CV2 4PX.

IN inquiry be State intervention in industry - a workers enquiry - by Coventry, Liverpool, the Newcastle and N the Tyneside trades coun- cils. f2 from the Other Bookshop, 329 Uppers St., London N1.

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Socialist Challenge 29 January 1981 Alternatives

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