Trade union and Labour activists should demand a full-scale inquiry, with rank-and-file activists on the inquiry panel, and reporting in full, about the New Labour leadership's financial dealings.
Only a short time after the scandal about New Labour minister Tessa Jowell's husband allegedly receiving large sums from right-wing Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, information has come out about New Labour receiving large loans from several wealthy people.
Almost all the wealthy lenders subsequently received peerages. Labour Party treasurer Jack Dromey says he knew nothing about the loan arrangements.
The Labour Party cannot possibly represent working-class people politically if it is tied by dozens of financial strings to the ultra-rich.
Trade union and Labour activists should fight to clear out the leaders who are hand-in-hand with the plutocrats.
