tack from Heseltine Tebbit, workers will looking for lead from their tops in both the trade unions and the Labour Party. FOLLOWING the the leader Party and the unions.
transpor workars union.
Silkin on the first round.
The TGWU TECIOTS popular refrain of the right wing? Mess the union's biennial conference be Benn.
issues at stake.
'away the ference" ie debate and under media.
The 'one person, hangs uneasily Duffy, whose deputy leadership ranks of their executive tion' from the left.
ty aren't intimidatory.
left.
CLPs, GCs should the pressure of the media The result TWGU NUPE, responsibilities recommendation as the repeatedly kicked and vote for Healey. Hard aca proposal.* result of the deputy leadership ballot, the right wing of the party were calling in unison for a change in the electoral college method of electing and deputy leader. Instead argued Duffy, Varley and Healey. a 'one person, one vote' system, including postal votes, should be introduced in the Labour The furore over democracy has been heightened by the result of the ballot in the A majority of the branches voted for Healey, the ex ecutive recommended a vote for Benn, and the delegation ended up voting for further compounded the confusion by adopting different methods of consulting the membership in different What kind of democracy is that is the The mess which the TGWU got itself into was a direct result of the refusal of the leadership of the union to allow a vote on deputy leadership question at the This would undoubtedly have resulted in a vote for This is the highest body of the union, the most representative, and above all one where there can be a discussion of the Healey gave the game away when he said last Sunday he preferred postal ballots Ter amator. COU away discussion, the influence of the Socialist Challenge believes that the most democratic way for unions to decide who to vote for in the Labour Party is the same way that they decide anything else - through their national conferences.
onemaTe on the lips of people like AUEW didn't discuss the question outside the Healey and Hattersiey say that votes at conferences, where everyone can see who is voting for what, are open to 'intimidaBut free debate and open accountabiliWhat intimidates the rank and file of the labour movement is the day-in-day-out vilification and slander from the press and television against the The only defense against this intimidation is precisely that the issues are able to be discussed out in front of those who are going to vote. The same applies inside the where the discussions inside the be replaced by the of the ballots inside NUPE bore the very obvious marks of the impact of the media.
the executive ignored its and refused to make a to memee sa!e despite the fact that it was Dennis Healey Labour Chancellor who the public sector workers in the teeth. The result of NUPE's executive's iresponsibility was the union Without doubt the right wing clamour for 'one person, one vote" will escalate in the coming weeks. The left should not for one moment be forced on to the defensive or confused by these arguments They are designed to put the decisions of Labour in the hands of the Daily Express the Daily Mail and the Sun. It's hard to see the democratic principles involved in such Socialist Challenge 1 October 1981 Page 3.
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