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Crimean Tatars: the Nation Stalin Deported For a Solidarity workers’ government For social ownership of the banks and industry No 318 26 March 2014 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org EDUCATION: FOR LIFE, NOT FOR PROFIT! See page 5 2 NEWS What is the Alliance A “trade-union party”? for Workers’ Liberty? By Martin Thomas Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to unwilling, at the last count), has indi - another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. The Annual General Meet - as of now, vidual-membership local Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to increase their ing on 29 March of the to take on organisations, and has its wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the Campaign for Labour the uphill own party conference. blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the Party Democracy will dis - fight Currently it has about destruction of the environment and much else. against ca - 9,000 members. People can Against the accumulated wealth and power of the cuss the idea of propos - ing to the unions that they reerists and do join the Co-op Party capitalists, the working class has one weapon: and en - without joining Labour, but solidarity. set up their own semi- party, tied to Labour by an trenched the 1927 deal says that they The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build interests in must not also be members solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow agreement but able to campaign autonomously. the Labour of parties standing candi - capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of Party. dates against Labour. In industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy much fuller The new practice, Co-op organisa - than the present system, with elected representatives recallable at any A motion from Jon Lans - time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. man calls for “exploratory Pre-Second World War Co-operative Party poster initiative, tions have sometimes func - We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” discussions... to seek to es - he said, tioned as caucuses for and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses. tablish (after the general would political factions interven - Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, election)... a ‘trade union response to the Collins have to be done collectively ing in Labour, including supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping party’... along the lines of changes in the Labour by the unions, or at least by sometimes the Communist organise rank-and-file groups. the Co-op Party - that is to Party, which threaten, over a number of unions. That is Party. We are also active among students and in many campaigns and say a political party to fur - time, to stifle the trade- preferable to each union A “trade-union party” alliances. ther the political interests of union voice within Labour. having its own political would have to be set up dif - the trade unions by seeking Repeated defensive meas - strategy and its own, often ferently from the Co-op We stand for: an agreement with the ures and damage-limitation ineffectual, effort to mo - Party, with some structural ● Independent working-class representation in politics. Labour Party (rather than ploys cannot be enough. bilise members politically. role for trade-union organi - ● A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour by opposing it or replacing If the trade unions decide The new initiative would sations. But, says Jon Lans - movement. it)...” to mobilise politically, we not be a revolutionary man, that can be sorted out ● A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to It also suggests that asked, why not propose party. It would reflect and if unions are keen on the picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. CLPD “campaign for the they do that through the campaign for trade-union basic idea. ● Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education rights of all affiliated sup - channels already provided policies on issues such as Could this “trade-union and jobs for all. porters to have full rights of by the Labour Party (the employment rights, union party” end up helping ● A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full participation in OMOV bal - union vote at Labour con - rights, the living wage, and Labour right-wingers to equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden lots for the selection of par - ference, the right of union so on. quash the union voice in the of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, liamentary candidates... branches to send voting del - Now is an odd time to Labour Party itself, by al - bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity consider whether to pro - egates to local Labour Par - cite the Co-op Party as a lowing them to tell trade against racism. mote the right of members ties) rather than setting up a model, after the scandals unionists that they have ● Open borders. of unions which are cur - new structure which would and crises at the Co-opera - their voice through the ● Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have rently not affiliated to the then lobby and pressurise tive Bank. But it is a loose “trade-union party” and do more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist party, but which have polit - the Labour Party? analogy rather than a not need extra? Jon Lans - rulers. ical funds, to become affili - The Labour Party, replied model. man thinks not: the “trade- ● Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or ated supporters...” Jon Lansman, is at present The Co-op Party was set union party” would not community to global social organisation. Talking to Solidarity , Jon discredited among trade up in 1917, in the political have votes within the ● Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all Lansman stressed the need unionists. A structure tumult around the end of Labour Party, but could act nations, against imperialists and predators big and small. to advocate a positive initia - which belongs and is con - World War One. Until 1927 as a force to uphold and en - ● Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. tive by the trade unions in genial to the trade unions there were Co-op MPs, who liven the votes the unions ● If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell — might attract many who are took the Labour whip in doI fh tahvee .idea gains support and join us! Parliament. In 1927 the Co- at the CLPD AGM, then op Party did a deal further discussion will be G4S killers to whereby the Co-op Party is needed throughout the Contact us: a “sister party” of Labour, labour movement. ● 020 7394 8923 ● [email protected] sponsors some “Labour and The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Co-op” candidates (32 MPs Road, London, SE1 3DG. stand trial ● Printed by Trinity Mirror By Tom Harris the three guards. However, 1,600 post jobs to go Three G4S security they have now decided to Get Solidarity every week! guards are to be charged prosecute the guards based By Gerry Bates on the unlawful killing ver - ● Trial sub, 6 issues £5 o with the manslaughter of dict of a coroner’s inquest. Royal Mail has announced plans to cut 1,600 jobs. ● 22 issues (six months). £18 waged Jimmy Mubenga, an asy - o lum seeker who was The coroner’s report was The cuts, mainly of back-room and Head Office jobs, £9 unwaged o killed during attempts to highly critical of the prac - come in the wake of the privatisation of the service late ● 44 issues (year). £35 waged deport him from the UK. tices and culture of the G4S o guards working in deporta - last year. £17 unwaged o Mubenga died in 2010 on tion. It described a “perva - Unite and the CWU union, both of whom have many ● European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) o a plane at Heathrow Air - sive” atmosphere of racism, members working in the post, have said they are consid - ering balloting for strike action. A spokesman from Unite or 50 euros (44 issues) o port. As the plane awaited “loutish” behaviour and peer pressure, as well as fi - claimed the job cuts had been calculated to make the serv - Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: take-off, Mubenga was physically restrained by the nancial incentives for keep - ice more attractive to the market. 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG guards. He died of coro - ing detainees quiet. Almost four months ago, the CWU agreed a deal with Cheques (£) to “AWL”. nary-respiratory failure. The report argues that management that would give Royal Mail workers a 9% pay increase and a range of guarantees against zero-hour Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. Mubenga had lived in these factors combine to Britain for 16 years. He had create a culture in which the contracts and compulsory job losses. brutal treatment and abuse In return, the union agreed to measures which would Name . fled here from Angola, where, as a student move - of those being deported curtail the potential for local strikes. Even if voluntary re - could flourish. dundancies were forthcoming, the scale of the job cuts in Address . ment leader, he fell foul of The inquest also dis - the governing regime. covered that the three this new announcement raises serious questions about whether Royal Mail bosses will honour the agreement.
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