led by Healey and Hattersley, ing all out to overturn the decisions of the Wembley conference.
The mass media echoing the concerns ot their class besides themselves with wrath at the thought of a left takeover.
Across the political spectrum, from the die-hard right to the far-left, there is broad agreement that this is the most explosive crisis to hit the Labour Party since MacDonald quit in 1931.
But are we all mistaking a storm in a tea cup for a political blizzard? Is it really much ado about nothing, as the Socialist Workers Party seems to think?
Writing Socialist February, Chris •ains ma •vunear as very marelal Telling the left to stop 'going on about "reselection' and "electoral colleges" he urges them to 'deal with the threat of the recession to shopfloor organisation.' Yet according logic, the Labour left will not be able to do lot about things because as he modestly explains: ... sections of the Labour left really want to worry about these sort of things they will need an organisational form and political concerns which will look remarkably like those of the SWP.
Since the poor deluded Labour left obviously intends to stay in the Labour Party and fight, and the SWP thinks it is all rather a waste of time, the twain will THE victory is goare paylllasters, Review on Harman dismisses the Chris Harman's fice.
ThaT mate it Class. never meet and we can all abandon hope.
It is crazy to adopt an holier than thou attitude to the fight for democracy inside ine Labour rarty The extension of control over Labour MPs and councilors Cane Labour leader accountable to the labour movement would seriously the means whereby capitalism has continued have interests whether Labour or the Tories are in ofThe fight for democracy is an attempt to break the grip of the state and to bring the MPs and councillors under the control of the organisations of the working This brings the state into the centre of British politics.
It seems strange that a revolutionary organisation like the SWP fails to unders. tand that, and what is more, fails to see that it otters Marxists a great opportunity to show to a growing authe out that the undermine served Get al?
questions of the They completely dience why a peaceful road to socialism is a highly unlikely event.
Duncan Hallas writing in Worker on 31 January is scathing about the fight for accountability and Moss Evans, who cast his vote 40-30-30 option, would tolerate anything like the same measure of democracy within the Transport and General Workers' Union.
But doesn't Duncan Hallas think that some hundreds of thousands of union members might start drawing some conclusions from the votes of Evans, Fisher Rank and file union members are like. ly to be quite enthusiastic about all this democracy which gets talked about at Labour Party conference by their leaders.
will surely start to think what is good for the Labour Party is equally good for their own unions.
Any struggle for democracy in the THE threat of direct US military intervention into becomes more serious day by day Socialist Challenge has been correct to point out that only the revolutionary movement El Salvador threatened, but also and Cuba.
But what about international solidarity? always thought letters ters Now, •usa mament issues people and their allies.
on 7 February:
Socialist points never steadily year the members.
The outcome policies being the parliamentarians mism.
Socialist Challenge was In favour socialist countries pursuing revolutionary foreign policy including military aid to countries struggling for socialism.
In consecutive organisations have agitated for greater democracy in the unions and for effective accountability of union officials when democracy is raised on a wider scale than ever before, it gets the brush off from their leader writers.
The battles in the party for policies t abolish the House of Lords, for unilateral along with that for nationalisation and the 35-hour week, are on which Marxists should abstain, especially when attrac ting ever wider support among working Paul Foot reported in Socialist Worker 'In the last three mon ths.... Labour Party headquarters has had a flood of applications from people who are opposed to nuclear weapons.
There is hardly a constituency Labour Party in Britain that is not reporting a increasing membership. party gained 80,000 of the fight for the advanced within the Labour Party is too important to be left to It is the task of every revolutionary Marxist to see that the struggle is taken through to the end and to show that Marxist policies can provide realistic and practical answers to those people who today look to left reforThat means relating directly to what is going on in the Labour Party, not com mentating from the sidelines.
articles Phil Hearse tried to deny that the rebels ir A Salvador receive an help from abroad, be it Soviet Union Cuba or Nicaragua.
He 'The WIULC openly talking abour the White House now possibility of a blockade of Cuba, which it allege Is supplylg rebels. This threat is bas ed on a frame-up just like the US fabrication thai 100 Nicaraguan soldiers landed by sea Salvador I can't check whethe this is true or not, , but if the Cubans don't help the rebels then the! ought to. should make clear that there is a difference between military support for liberation fighters, where they invite foreign soldiers to help them in their struggle contro stays with the local rebels.
We are opposed to a military invasion of country, by the United States the Soviet Union or an! other state.
And America has no right blockade of Cuba Cuba send: arms and soldiers or not London
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International solidarity, only propaganda?