§IX — FBU, RMT, and AWL — The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part IX
48. SHOULD THE FBU HAVE STOOD CANDIDATES? “There is another issue. Which concerns the advocacy of trade union candidates against Labour, without the preliminaries of a fight for the Labour ticket. This is an area of great confusion. For instance, we still await a clear answer from John Bloxam and John O’Mahony on whether they wanted the AWL to intervene into the current fire fighters dispute by calling on the FBU to stand official union candidates against Labour in the recent local government elections (which we think would have been a disastrous counterproductive diversion), or whether they...