Assert trade unions' right to a political voice
Few things in British politics were as ludicrous as the outcry in the press and from Tory/ Lib-Dem coalition ministers against the trade unions’ role in electing Ed Miliband. And few things are as poisonous. The trade unions, the labour movement, must not — they try to insist — organise and act to secure effective working-class representation in Parliament. The response of the coalition and their media in effect says that when the unions begin to act that way — and what they have done to elect Ed Miliband is, of course, still a long way from doing it properly — they are entirely out of order...