TERRY DUFFY is the new President of the AUEW. This represents unmitigated disaster right-winger in the labour movement. It will be greeted with hymns of praise by Bernard Levin and the Tory press, which actively campaigned for Dully's victory Dully will now use the precedent first established b Carron and recently emulated by Scanion 1o cast the million and a half votes he deems fit. Duffy's Law will probably be used to the detriment of every militant in the Engineering Union.
Duffy's election represents a sharp drift to the right by one of the country's two most powerful unions, What now becomes even more vital than ever before is a fighting organisation within the AUEW The leaders of the Broad Left should not waste too much time in drying their tears. They convene a conference of all those who supported Wright to plan a campaign in the coming months. on both the way forward for the Engineeripp members and the fight for union democracy. Duffy's victory shows that the two issues are closely related.
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of engineering workers in the way should immedialal NUPE. This should centre Party as un election winner. Who have argued with each other, not really about each other's racialism, but ahout who is offering the best to the 'Immigration Their racialism was put to shame on Sunday. It was put to shame best of all by those who perhaps could be excused most for looking for black brown scapegoats. The young wbite underprivileged who made up the bulk of the carnival.
Of course the usuals were there as well. Union banners NALGO, revolutionary left, Communist and Labour Party contingents. Paper sellers, book sellers, badge sellers.
But that was not what made it.
EEL PULSE It was the punks, rockers, school kids and others who have never been to a political event in their life who made it special.
Some will say they and the majority of the 80,000 wouldn't have heen there but for Tom Robinson, The Clash and the sun. And they are probably right. But there is nothing wrong with using every weapon at our disposal to fight fascism.
Those who see demonstrations as at best a duty and at worst a chore could only have been exhilarated at the difference of 30 April; at the music, joy, and enthusiasm.
If many did come for the music how many went away wearing ANt or 'Fight Racism' badges?
Socialist Challenge supporters sold 7,000 of the latter before the carnival was half over, and that sayS something about the effect the carnival had.
Alright, we should not be swept away into thinking that 80,000 will turn out on a wet winter's afternoon to march against the Front in East London.
We should not pretead that the Front and racialism lost the war on Sunday; we should remember that the next day an estimated 1,500 members of the Front marched secretly through central London and that the Front could well get 100,000 votes in London in the local government elections on 4 May.
But having said that, what was seen on Sunday at the march and carnival was a glimpse of the Tutore.
Most of all, racism, which for months has become "respectable" through the mouthings of the establishment politicians, 1SP413 driven back into the gutter by 80,000 people.
And that is where i belongs.
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workere. The fact that the union's rule book will now be 'Interpreted" by Brother Duffy is a fact that will please every