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the Duffy-Boddy they accept the A recall TUC to support for all workers engaged in struggles. THE document entitled 'A Better Way' is remarkable on many It is signed by twelve members of the TUC General Council. The document thus reflects the combined intellectual weight of Terry Duffy and Jack Boddy amongst others. It represents a sharp attack on the current policies of the TUC and the Labour Party in that it rejects free collective bargaining and comes out strongly for an incomes policy — albeit one which is Let us just pause for a moment and imagine what would have happened if the TUC and Labour Party conferences had voted for an incomes policy and then a minority on the TUC had published a defence of free collective bargaining. All hell would have broken loose. The entire media would have denounced them as antidemocratic'. Labour Ministers would have publicly taunted them and the general theme for weeks would have been that the left hates But when decisions are taken by one trade union conference after another against wage restraint, and sanctified hy both the TUC and Labour Party conferences, then all scruples disappear. Duffy, Boddy, Weighell, Jackson, and co. are the voices of Acclaimed by the 'popular press' and feted by the government, they are the voices of collaboration. For them the only future open to British workers is one whose horizons do not extend beyond capitalism. The way they propose is certainly a better one for the present economic system, but not for those who are among its The fact that the TUC dirty dozen have taken the initiative in this fashion should come as no surprise. The Labour leadership is desperate for a concordat with the unions before the elections. This document has already been used by Callaghan as a wedge It needs a reply. Clearly the militancy of the low paid workers is most eloquent response, but much more is needed. The grouping needs to be confronted politically. The bulk of the TUC leaders are incapable of providing a reply because essence of what their colleagues are saying. discuss the present crisis and alternative solutions would be one arena where those in favour of the class struggle could put forward their positions and win