Who's who on the Commission
Socialist Press1978 1978-05-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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BELGIUM.
Houthuys, J., trade union bureaucrat, President of Confed. of Catholic Trade Unions.
Janssen, D.E., trade union bureaucrat.
CANADA Bell, R., trade union bureaucrat.
EIRE Murphy, D., trade union crat.
Barre, R., Prime Minister.
Crepeau, M., member of the Radicals.
Rothschild, E. de, financier.
WEST GERMANY Loderer; E., trade union bureaucrat. President of German Metal Workers Union.
ITALY Agnelli, G., industrialist, of Fiat.
Carli, G., financier.
HOLLAND Kloos, A., trade union UNITED KINGDOM Baring, G.R.S., (Earl of Cromer), financier, director Shell, P&O, imperial, ex-Governor of Bank of England.
Fisher, M.H., Editor of Financial Times.
Geddes, Sir Reay, chairman of Dunlop. director of Shell, Rank, Midland Bank, Pirelli.
Grierson, R.H., industrialist.
Director GEC.
Hayhoe, B.J., Tory MP.
Keith, Sir K., industrialist, chairman of Rolls Royce, director, Times.
Knight, Sir A.. chairman, Courtaulds, director Pye, Rolls Royce.
Littman, M., lawyer/industrialist.
Luard, E., Labour MP for Oxford.
McFadzean, Sir F.S., chairman of British Airways, director of Shell, Beechams.
MacFarquhar, R., Labour MP.
Maudling, R., Shadow Foreign Secretary.
O'Neill, Sir C., diplomat.
Unigate.
Carter-desperately unpopular industrial and economic strength between the 'leading imperialist power and the most advanced workers' state.
As a result of this the attempt to provoke conflict among the workers' states (most notably the USSR and China) has become another of the main axes of the imperialist policy cooked up by the T.C. members and their friends in the Carter administration.
The growth of the Trilateral Commission reflects the crisis of imperialism and in particular the loss of confidence by leading capitalists in ite num aalitial laadama Ormsby Gore, (Lord Harlech).
Tory politician, chairman, Harlech TV.
Ramsbotham, Sir P., diplomat, Governor of Bermuda.
Ridsdale, J., Tory MP.
Roll, Sir E., civil servant, director Bank of England.
Roper J., Labour MP. Economist.
Shackleton, Lord, Deputy Chairman, RTZ.
Shonfield, Andrew, journalist.
Tuke, A.F., financier, Chairman of Barclays Bank.
Williams, A.L., Labour MP.
Younger, Sir K., Labour politician and lawyer.
Abel, I.W., trade union bureaucrat, ex-President US Steelworkers Union.
Austin, J.P., chairman, Coca Cola.
Numerous directorships.
Ball, G.W., Legal advisor government departments.
Blumenthal, W.M., Secretary the US Treasury.
Brezezinski, Z., academic, adviser to government departments.
Carter, J.E., US President and peanut farmer.
Chalkin, S., trade union bureaucrat, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Donovan, H., Editor in Chief, Time Inc.
Kaiser, L., union bureaucrat, secretary-treasurer of AFL-CIO.
Kissinger, H., politician, chairman Chase Manhattan Bank.
Mondale, W., Vice President Owen, H.D., academic.
Reischauer, E.O., academic.
Rockefeller, D., financier.
Rockefeller, J.D.N., Governor W. Virginia.
Scranton, W.W., lawyer/politician.
Vance, C.R., US Secretary of State. Numerous directorships.
Ward, M.J., trade union bureaucrat.
Woodcock, L., President of United Auto Workers, trade union bureaucrat.
Young, A., permanent tative to UN.
That was why the T.C. attempted to create Carter as an "ideal" leader.
They must be finding that it is more difficult than they had hoped to fight the objective consequences fo the crisis. • Last weck, after numerous political failures, the T.C.'s political "creation" was, according to American public opinion polls, less popular than any previous American president at the same stage in his term of office. It will take more than the T.l. has done. it seems, to restore the 'loss of respect for authority
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Socialist Press, in its coverage of the recent council elections focussed attention on two Labour candidates in Newham who stood on a principled programme of opposition to the Lib-Lab coalition, for the removal of right wing traitors in the Labour Party and for socialist policies to defend the working class against the capitalist crisis.
Right-wingers in the party would no doubt have liked to witch-hunt those who refused to trot out the same dreary old reformist lies to the working class.
However, the energetic campaign for a socialist programme produced results that stood in sharp contrast to the declining fortunes of the Labour Party in London.
50% increase The response of workers and immigrants came out in a more than 50% increase in the Labour vote from the previous elections-a rise from around 800 to 1300! Triumphant-John Plant for the last 12 years.
The basis has been laid a principled opposition