Defend the unions' voice in politics!
The Labour Party was set up to give the organised working class, through the trade unions, a collective voice in politics. Now, according to a BBC report , the new "Labour" leader Gordon Brown wants to abolish that. The details are not clear from the BBC report, but the gist seems to be that Brown plans for Labour Party conference to cease to be even formally the body which decides policy. Instead, the Labour leaders' policies will be "democratically" ratified by take-it-or-leave-it referendums of Labour Party members, in which they are offered a choice between accepting the policies or...