I can’t remember the last time I saw anything worth reading in Tribune, the British left-Labour paper. But this article by veteran labour journalist Geoffrey Goodman is a well-argued piece and historically accurate, at least. (Hat-tip to Eric Lee’s LabourStart – the essential source for union news).
I’d like to be convinced British unions retained these democratic instincts – I’m sure most members do. But in a week in which the UK’s biggest union elected an openly unrepentant Stalinist as its leader (does he still have the mass murderer’s framed photo in his office?) and when so many British unions, including the TUC, are cheerleaders for such democratic icons as Chavez and Castro, I suspect Ernie Bevin is spinning in his grave.
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