OF IN FOOTBALL FANS ciary from top to bottom, by the local community. would be seer as a credible alternative to situa to reverse comprehensivisation of schoois in lamesidd Thirdly, democracy has Labour MPs recallably or all about local For any revolutionary programme.
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In ine quick to to the recent attacks chester TOO1OAI8IS Line role or parnamen lighted by the Liberal/ Labour paci been nion rebellions of right The demand for the moVe ment representatives, from MPs to trade unions should again have been part candidates cise me caricatured should have been the centre of the union problems controntine ine workine class alc all so prosed mess he COmICHE of police pay rates Transtormation of outs society OT SUCH a DrO gramme should be the principal method. lask of any united far left slate in a As a first step I would suggest Lecnne democratic rights logy of Political Control (7 April)
comrades to deal its undoubted potential a of constitutional coupie or years Robert Wagner and his secretary, EarthCharlton Heston chooses and certain death trving to rescue the WOrKing Class Gardner) he hates, What rather than staying with the other woman he loves. In death he is, simultaneously, punished for infiDay increases delity and united with his true Through the most frightful disoppose the important institutions do remain intact, smiled on by According both Nature and Fortune. God really does seem to be on the side bourgeoisie. Which tangled past you have been expose to strengthen the state at the ex get it pense or the working class, se i'm surprised that you failed to INIK devote even a couple of lines on Man United and Chelse YOU Cling to away matches, taken. Lecally mnese wans nave expose it, as much, if not more right to travel to matches as the labour movement has to picket. Who exist) knows what will come under working class movement aspriations Val Graham and Chris Roseblade's letter on the police (Red weekly swering any of the points in my Half the reason for this is the the very tault tor wnicn they cru - and the other nail is a my They ignore the section of my article which explained how could sometimes be used to brea cemanos amone down discipline and they have no dence I used of the CP's distortion In sum they offer neither alterevidence nor an alternative (or, My starting point was the need to oreak cown Dolice DISCIDE They offer no alternative to tnal except some abstract struggle for Torce Graham and Rose Frank Serpico (1), seize upon my distinction betpolice and conscript soldiers as evidence of my idiocy. had naively thought I was stating ine oovious. Conscris de WON ers who have been forced into the of the bourgeois state anc will be returning to civilian life in a are volunteers witn high level of ideological training in suppression of the political union activity of posed to Graham and Roseblade's actually said (as opversion of my argument) was that specific demands for unionisation, and strike have to be assessed by th sole criterion of the breakdown o discipline in the police.
the right to strike in the to Graham Communist Parv lee me to ore cisely the same error - by some which Fans are an easy target, we Our parents [and their generation] wear WUSS cluos oniv want our money and our voices. In that situation we are a target for any copper who wants to fill up his arrest book are tignting the strengtening the state, at least take up this Issue and Its implications and I you don't stand ww us on me terracos A Norwich City Fan (Yes we do body affiliated to the sH organisation with support in ine Althouch the SSA has adopted nine-tenths of NOISS programme for intaining centrist tion) the preamble to this (unde quite honestly. compietely -es apparently said don't know that the struggle for democratic rights is ne same as me democratsarior of the state.
This is the nub of the problem For Trotskyists, the struggle for rights is a particular weason in me class whole. Inat Is • do not emon those rights of their class content rights as a general principle but as a romm or organisalon winch val detend ine living standards of the class as a wnole. for support the affiliation of the Law Society college or Nursing) to the ou Roseblade and Granam, now seem to support democratic rights for cops regardless of their impact on the discipline of One sentence gives them away: According to that logic we might just as well oppose politica rights for soldiers on the grounds that they'd all join the NF i course we co subson Dol tical rights for soldiers against the bourgeois But we are op posed to the extension of democ to fascist Tale recools sations ano WE organisations to Cura Inadvertently perlays upon the example which exposes the weakness of their calcildi support for democratic rights Apparently my line is a static one. I supposedly ignore the dy struggle namic created by put the onus on union rents anc individual cops to Join unions Perhaps I did not make mysel are wilfully missing was advocating the right of unions to camoalen tor membersnis in side the police.
is a serious criticism to be made of this position, but it is Graham and HoseDlaces. mne porendiy dis astrous consequences of allowing paid agents of the meetings. So enthusiastic are the comrades on the democratic pot antial or ine CoDs inat TRev untroubled by such small matters Finally, the problem I was trying unionism was inadequate to brea down the police. raised tne prob police houses. which ar part of the of a police would officer. clearly opposed to their continuance -assume Graham and Roseblade since they don't but no trade omnerwise. would ever arque for a real wage cut for its members I readily admit that my article was scnematic sort practical Graham and Roseblade prefer to hide behind a string platitudes about democratic rights without once mennonine soecile police struggles or the particular which police unions would face "Since when have Trotskyists opposed democratic MONTS they -aSk SINCE Trotsky, ir fact comrades! The of police militancy Western Europe in recent years ines orcecame courn niemanor al to re-evaluate that traditiona Trotskyist position. My article wa intended as a contribution to suct ra re-evaluation But trotsky, with his insistence mnar coos are no 'workers in uniform', still has a lot to teach us.
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