Socialist Challenge has been debating Alex Kitson's proposal to give Constituency Labour Race MP nent in setting up the new left wing 'Campaign Group' of MPs.
How can we win control of the NEC when the block vote controls such a decisive section of it?
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crudeness, like, of the left 90SlS slate.
but delegations entirely, But, trade conference any has been promied in any mandating about the way their people should vote in the NEC elections.
union conferences all very well mandating for Deputy when advance the was made when Tony Benn stood. But the NEC.
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the point. There's implicit in giving more to individual members:
sense activity active in her or his trade union; and there, at least in theory, discuss what the local and national Labour Party is going to do. Are you in fact devaluing activity of the individual trade union activist?
No, not at all. We've go try and overcome thi division between the trade unions discussing collective bargaining. and ine Labour Party, discussing politics. I think we're not devaluing the collective bargaining at all. What the argument reflects is a concern that the trade unions don't talk about politics accIsIons way individual trade can local than fighting for the unions discuss and make political both.
They've fight on which is immOSt them.
issues. some of which of which the union the local campaigns Reg Race MP - do uHOHs collective institutions.
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Parties twice as many votes at Labour Party conference. Alan Freeman discusses the issues with Reg