Solidarity 104 10 January 2007

Debate: Amicus-TGWU merger: the creation of a fighting union? Early in 2007, members of the TGWU and Amicus will ballot on proposed terms for a merger. The TGWU has approved the terms at a special delegate conference on 19 December 2006, and Amicus, in a postal ballot of its Executive. TGWU members of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty believe we should vote in favour of that merger, a decision endorsed by the AWL’s national committee. Some comrades remained unconvinced and therefore we will continue to debate the terms of the merger. Below Peter Baker argues the case for the merger and Martin...

By Paddy Dollard NEIL Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity’s first extra-terrestrial baby-steps in July 1969, when they walked on the moon. Clumsy, uncertain, stumbling, there on the surface of the moon, they might have been mimicking the weary, clumsy, sometimes half-dead footsteps of the slave labourers who, at the end of World War Two, worked on the Nazi V2 rocket sites in France. And, in a sense, they were. ________________________________________________ “The German scientists led by Prof. Wernher von Braun…saw everything that went on every day. When they walked along the corridors...