troops.
Kaunda, socialism bosses their all involvement be all and wil Party Should the Labour Party be they Africa Should the leaders Rally decided? the NEC last week.
Neither operates, broadly the power of veto over the first. For, years, over the draws up an enl For years, unrepresentative individual.
party bodies that able bureaucrats, flunkies. decisions suggested good enough.
the NEC's democratic át all, unionists and electors. it would be utterly foolish and counter-productive for the Tories to recognise Muzorewa. The logic of this, he insisted, would be to despatch British Last Sunday the Zambian President, Kenneth repeated the wholesale on Canadian radio and an official went over the same ground Callaghan-Kaunda warning:
"The case against Britain going it alone is that would increase The fact that three influential voices are the run according to democratic principles?
Not the Labour Party be accountable to the party rank and file? Should the programme of the Labour Party be democratic- silenced These are the questions raised by In reality, the Labour Party is two parties, not one. One of these parties speaking, democratic principles. But the other party operates in the wings. This party, Labour a clique accountable to no-one, has the elected party conference has voted for one thing, only to find that the unelected PLP electen manifesto containing something entirely differthe elected party power conference has expressed discontent with Labour Prime Ministers, only to find that the PLP re-selects the same When Labour gets in power, the elected party is heartily trampled on the the PLP. Supported by the PLP, MPs evade re-selection by the elected first nominated Supported by the PLP the Prime Minister, uses wide powers of trade patronage to fill the government and che state apparatus with non-accountbourgeois and lefts of the NEC the гетота.
Tony Benn, could represent an important challenge to this state of attairs thourh many oi their proposals, such as those on how to elect une rame ivinister, die no Callaghan and Basnett reply that proposals • are saying that they exclude the views of millions of trade But did the electors of 1974 vote statement virtually and repeated the for unemployment; cors in social service at C controls not. The electors voted in 1974 for a programme that resembles the one drawn up by Benn and the NEC, not cobbled Callaghan, the PLP Did the trade unions vote for these policies? Of course not. Most union conferences have explicitly rejected the policies of Callaghan and the right -wing. The trade union leaders have the true of their members by a process of bureaucratic usurpation the unions marching that of the PLP in the Labour Party!
Callaghan and Basnett. party democracy because they know it is they who stand to lose by it. As everyone can see, the fight in the Party 11U| just democracy. It is a fight between the left and the right of the labour movement. And it could easily turned into a bid for power by the left exists.
sections in the City). troops are week.
COLISC by oppose about would suggest that something is up. We can be sure that A Foreign Office/Defence Ministry brieting which seriously discusses this possibility already For Margaret Thatcher has made no secret of her desire to recognise the Muzorewa regime. It is exactly the sort of government which could deliver the goods (hence the opposition of influential If recognition took place and sanctions were lifted, the first demand of Smith-Muzorewa would be for arms and the second for military 'advisors'. And whether the Tories like it or not they would be drawn into a military intervention.
This may not happen. The British ruling class might pull the Tories back from the brink. But the labour movement should regard the present machinations as an early warning. For if British sent into oppositon(on the scale of Suez) will be vital.
Herbert Marcuse of Herbert Marcuse at the age of eighty-four. It was not possible to publish an obituary in this issue, but a detailed appreciation will appear nex ducquate But That is why Tories.
Zimbabwe .. a mass IT'S LOOKING GOOD such a heavy responsibility rests on their shoulders. A victory for the left in the Labour Party should be part and parcel of the fight against the
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ON THE face of it the possibility that Britain (already heavily committed in Northern Ireland) might send troops to aid Smith in Zimbabwe appears somewhat incredible. But is it? Callaghan said in the House of Commons that
Zambian paper warned: 'We do not want another Vietnam in Africa. A recognition of Muzorewa would suck British troops into that maelstrom.' The following Monday the Financial Times
all other problems would remain: the fighting involvement and increase in Brains
relations with some of the key African states would detiorate, perhaps to breaking point.'
The row in the Labour