IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

BUILDING A MASS LABOUR

Socialist Challenge No. 149, 29 May 1980 · p. 8 of the scan · 258 words

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page 8 of the scan

mittees and wards.

The result has and union activists.

local affairs as nany trade union activists Secondly, 'governmentalisation' trade unions which sucil d Involved Many is unnecessary.

time.

The effect on will be aisastrous voting for Labour.

develop no way that capitalism will be legislated out of existence or not require the active involvement of level Our need to build a mass party, therefore, is not simply to ment. machine but to develop an extraparliamentary force which can Labour will secure active working class support if it is seen to present a genuine alternative to capitalism and that those who join the party will be able to play part policy which in turn will be implemented by a Labour government.

It is because this has not been certainly since 1945, that the campaign for greater accountability within the party has been so overwhelmingly sucamong rank-and-file Trade unions in particular should realise that they can pass all the resolutions they wish the Labour Party conference but until the party is solidly based on an active and politically aware class, in control of public represensuch resolutions will remain pious hopes.

Workplace branches integral part of constituency organisations offer one way relating socialist solutions to the problems of the If the 1974 industrial strategy based on the National Enterprise Board and planning agreements had been given a better grounding within the trade union movement it would not have been possible for Harold Wilson to sabotage it so effectively.

Certainly, no major policies of the party should be simply tee.

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