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The vicious anti-communism of the Labour government and the class collaboration of the Communist Party were both highlighted last week.
Industry Secretary Eric Varley is reported to be hesitating before appointing Post Office Engineering Union NEC member Len Willett to the board of the Post Office.
• Stooge Willett, a member of the Communist Party was elected to the 19-strong board by a vote at the POEU conference in September.
His willingness to become one of the stooge trade union "representatives" on this management body which overseas the implementation of speed-up in the hugely profitable post and telecommunications service, should come as no surprise. members have argued in favour of workers participation' ' schemes in British Leyland, in the ship building industry and elsewhere.
. Nowhere have they shrunk from performing management 'duties' such as assisting the closure of plants, the 'rationalisation' of production and the trimming of the labour force.
But for Varley, and Prime Minister Callaghan, even the word 'Communist' smacks uncomfortably of militancy and resistance. According to the Department of Industry, anyone liable to prove a "security risk" could be excluded from the Post Office board.
But the reality is that, under the guise of "industrial democracy", the Post Office board consciously excludes anyone remotely likely to defend the interests of the working class.
Only the political illiteracy of Varley and Callaghan has led to them placing Communist Party members in that category! military hardware PARTY