SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world
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TONY BENN once said that democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world. There have even been suggestions by Labour’s democracy refuseniks that advocates of greater democracy must be Marxists.
They frequently pose that question to anyone who wants to give Labour’s mass movement more say over policy and the power to determine who represents them at elections.
Similarly, calls to stop, or at least limit, the ability of the Parliamentary Labour Party (which currently stands at around 0.04 per cent of the total membership) to veto who can stand as leader are also dismissed as extremist.
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