"Which regime change next?"

Socialist Resistance pilot issue October 2002 | page 11

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Crow kept out of top flight General Secretaries lost votes in the General Council elections - Bob Crow was kept off the General Council, the first time that the RMT has not been represented in the history of the union. ••• Congress concluded on Thursday with a call for the itself on the back foot - narrowly avoiding defeat only by retreating in the face of pressure from the left.

Congress got off to a cracking start on Monday with a debate on rights at change in the law. work followed by an impassioned argument over the

Calling for a repeal of all the anti-union laws, RMT leader Bob Crow won an ovation pointing out that

opposed every Tory anti-union law in oppo- any "unilateral" sition but now our Prime Minister boasts of having the most draconian laws."

NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear highlighted the Italian trade union response mass of delegates. to the threat to just one aspect of employment lawa general strike and two million workers taking to the streets, action which would rejections be illegal under British law.

Carried unanimously, the employment rights composite accused the goverment