Stop union reps backing the war!
By Peter Brown The war has exposed once again the lack of accountability of the trade union representatives on the Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC). The trade unions still have power in the Labour Party - if they choose to exercise it. But overwhelmingly the trade unions in the party toe the Blair line, even when it is against the line of their own union. Every single union rep on the NEC has backed Blair on the war! At the 28 January NEC meeting an anti-war motion fell without a vote, because a bland pro-Government statement had been carried: "The NEC believes that the...