Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham has threatened to consider withdrawing the union’s funding to the Labour Party. This is a belated and insincere attempt to placate the 70 refuse drivers faced with a scabbing operation and to head off a broader rebellion by the working class against the Labour Party and its allies in the trade union bureaucracy.
Chapter 3: The scarecrow of Stalinism
Can the tiger be skinned claw by claw?
In part 2 of his written oration on parliamentary democracy and those whom he denounces as its enemies (Observer, January 17 1982), Michael Foot attempts to answer the challenge he had posed to himself in part one.
When we occupied the British Aircraft Corporation factory in 1974 – And reflections for today libcom.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from libcom.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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