Letter! unemployed and a Tory (20 per cent unemployed in Liverpool)
only this, they have shown that they can change NALGO Lallic 'bosses' union into one which fights for ALTHOUGH the NUPE| How could it be that our votes went to someone who is opposed to all the central policies our ror those of Tony Benn?
How could OUT
members tip the scales for someone who was correct. ly held in contempt by all sections of NUPE two and a half years ago when he tried to ram the 5 per cent limit down our throats?
The responsiblity for at the Labour Party conference was right to vote for Healey in the circumstances, this represented a calamity for both NUPE and the Labour Party.
this debacle lies scual cis with the national leadership of NUPE. To begin there was no clear recommendation from the executive council for a massive vote for Benn Secondly, there was no nationally co-ordinated tallyalll 11Ul CVCI culars to all shop stewards urging support for Benn, lo win ine ranks of the union to Benn as the only candidate who of Ken supported union policy.
Such a campaign was perfectly possible. In own branch we were able to canvass virtually the entire membership at mass site meetings which coin cided with annual branch clections. , There were clear Hu Bired recommendations from the branch activists, and Benn took 65 per cent of the vote.
Interestingly person could be found at any meeting to put a single argument favour of Healey or Silkin.
Next year, such a campaign must be organised discover that his hallucinatory load as Geoff says, but he discovers that intentions real, inner self and the meaning is ridiculous because 'there is no final truth, there is no The goes further, and argues that the only meaning to life are the purposes and inten- weeks tions which human beings give correct, How to democratise the Transport Union?
Socialist Challenge ¡allullally again THUS see the spectacle of NUPE's votes going to someone who represent everything we are fighting against For this reason the for. mation of nauona NUPE Broad Left, based on the fight lor a campaigning union, is an urgent task.
For too long the left has been complacent NUPE Hopefully the rude shock of the Heale! vote now be transformed into a strengthening of the left in the union. Anyone interested in a NUPE Broad Left, tact Dominic Jahnson, NUPE convenor, Chur chill, Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
This rejection of the pursuit of absolute truth (which he corof absolute truth (which he correctly recognises is essentially a religious notion) is overlaid with an adoption of the power of love as an essential facet of human and purposes but there's nothing wrong with that is there? In fact it brought tears to my eyes.
Incidentally think SC should keep up the film reviews: I very much missed the Under Review page over the past few Congratulations again on SC's very high quality.
Paul Lawson, West London