I AM grateful for Anne Cesek's Iraternal review (17 Party (obtainable, incidentally, from the Institute for Workers Control, 45 Gamble Street, Nottingham, price 40p).
But her suggestion that I helieve with 'the traditional lett in the Labour Party' that extraparliamentary activity an ace to balacilal s reform is inaccurate and certainly could not have been extrapolated trom tne pampaiel For example, I argued 'we need to go further and give a priority to extra-parnamentary action, even to the point of subordinating electoral politics to it', and 'what is required is to press lor parlamentary change as lai di the sytem will allow it, from the base of extra-parliamentary activism.
*Any other strategy in contemporary Britain is doomed, either to a corone soo lc case of an exclusively electoralist approach) OF at the margins of society (in th case of fringe left groups).
Similarly, the traditional Labour left tends to see the Alternative Economic Strategy as a capital, that is not true of newer left forces.