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Marxists support the right of workers panies to elect the directors of companies and to pursue workers control of production. Neil Kinnock rejects this and believes workers should be subject to unelected directors and managers or, at best, should have token presence on a board which is composed not of workers but shareholders Marxists that judges and state officials should elected. Neil Kinnock rejects elections and democracy in this field believes judges state officials should be appointed above AT ITS meeting last week the Labour Party NEC decided to draw up a document explaining the prinagainst Marxists within the Labour Party. The real aim of this operaat all but an organisational witch hunt — which is why Dennis Tony Benn, Joan Maynard, Eric Heffel and the rest of the left were dead right to oppose it.
without The result is not merely a series of judges state officials who hand out anti-working class judgements but a complete ot in this entire the apparatus.
Marxists stand for full trade union and political rights for those in the armed forces. Neil Kinnock on the contrary supports an anti-democratic system of military law which deprives those in the armed forces of any rights makes them the shock troops for a military coup both in every country in the world.
Marxists stand for the democratic right of women, blacks, elect their own representatives on the NE( i of the Labour Party — Neil Kinnock opposes it.
No control A Marxist critique of parliament is not that it democratic but that not democratic enough. not sufficient for real exist that people can put a cross on a piece of paper every five years then have no control over their representatives. Marxists believe that real democracv does not exis as long as people do not have the right to vote on the control of their community, their firm, every other question which confronts them. Neil Kinnock on the contrary wants to restrict the right to vote within narrow confines Finally Marxists believe that no real exist long as the control of the economy remains in the hands of tarbitrary unelected centres private economic power. Only by making the centres of • economic power subject to democratic control by public, democratically accountable, ownership the major industries by promonon of cooperatives and similar venlures in ouner sonere. can real in society be achieved.
No vote Neil Kinnock on the Contraly economy should be left in the hands of individuals, companies, who no vote • of their workforce, can, and have, placed literally millions of people on the dole.
In short, at every point Marxist stands for the extension of democracy and Neil Kinnock stands for its restriction.
But forget about any possibility that the commission the NEC will bother to state that truth.