dissatisfaction among large numbers of party members company.
massive debate erupted on the policies of a future government. With the recent memory of the debacle of the last Labour government, increasing numbers of party workers want definite commitment socialist policies.
At the one-day conference at the end of last month, Callaghan made his position clear. He wants a policy of incomes control, British support for NATO, and no radical measures of any significance — in other words another Labour government which simply manages capitalism. the has possible to defeat the right by back-room manoeuvres horse trading with the union leaders.
In reality it is organising the left in the constituencies and the unions for a fight that it is possible to win. To mobilise a rank and file fight it is not possible to conCentrale for democracy, important though it is. It is necessary to link the battle for democracy in the all Labour Party and the trade the HOVCHCHI action against the Tories.
A first tentative step toward the organising the Labour left in the unions will be taken by the
Labour Co-ordinating
and mittee's trade union conference I1 tae autumn.
Benn's policies and his proonly by ject for a 'left' Labour government are not ours. the interests of the whole working class that the Labour right defeated.
Socialist support for the new Mobilising Committee' which formed to fight for Labour Party democracy.
Party in the will have an important effect on the possibility of socialist advance in Britain for years to COlIC. Socialists Com- everything Yet it is in That's Challenge stands for has beer The events in the Labour coming months our power to organise to kick out the right -COMPUTE "Wel Dammit. What's Not What this Printou Says tries.
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then time error. tion you where you live. So could the vast majority of the population of this and other coun it will be hutle comrort to know that this could happen by accident. That computer in the United Chad made тата and reported a Soviet Union military attack that never And that nuclear weapons had been sent speeding to the self-defence hac fired a battery of its own. It would be too late then for the computer to read-out. Sorry. all a mistake Or at any rate too late for most of us; Margaret Thatcher Jimmy Carter, the generals, and the arms manufacturers would probably scramble to their fall-out shelter in scenario was underined at she star. possibility such OI LOS wee when, for the third since November and Ine second time in a week, computer US •DUI HILU motion which could have ended in In each case a nuclear strike against prevented. But the margin was only ovie The lunacy of it all can hardly be contested: the madness of a world full to the brim with weapons that can kill us all is now too self evident to require further elaboraWhat should be said is that an accident is probably not the most likely cause of nuclear war.
Tenan deliberate build-up war machine of the NATO alliance and the determination of the US to re impose its dominance even if future of humanity is the required sacrifice.
It s tempung for us to sarug our shoulders and accept the in evitability of the cataclysm. This is Thatcher, Reagan, and other leaders of the Western world want us to do But there are things that can be done. In this country one of them is the building of a mass campaign to demand tat we opt out or une arm race and out of the NATO alliance which demands it.
Specifically and immediately it means protesting against the deployment of Cruise missiles in COUNCE MUSSUCS WHOSC launch will be controlled by those Pentagon computers, and which ensure that we will be first in the fir. ing line for any soviet retallation.
Sunday demonstration takes place in London against the siting of these missiles. That is one demonstration and one cause which cannot attor to wait. Time is not on our side
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THE fight for the leader- ship of the Labour Party is on with a vengeance. Events since the special one-day conference have revealed an increasing
pathetic opposition to the Tories being put up by Callaghan, Healey, and
in the Labour Party and in the THAT WAS THE THAT