from our own
correspondent The latest issue of Interviational Socialist Journalist, number 18 (available 5/6d. post free from 19, Greenfield Street, Dunkirk, Nottingham. ) contains two vitally interesting symposia on trade union unity in Italy and France, In France, representative spokesmen of Force Ouvrier (socialist), the CGT (communist) and the Christian unions gathered in an informal round table to discussproblems of union strategy:. in Italy, representatives of the CGIL (socialist-commnist) and CISL (catholic), inleuding members of the Socialist Party, the PSIUP and Communist Party met under the chairmanship of Lettiori of the PSIUP, our fraternal New Left party in Italy. These discussions are of crucial interest to British trade unionists, because the pressing need for unity across the whole European continent becomes central if labour is to meet the growing threat of European capital organised in theCommon Market, The same issue contains documentation on our own Workers’ Control Conference, about which Bill Boyle, of DATA, has contributed a comprehensive article,