IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Devotion

Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981 · p. 5 of the scan · 158 words

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He was originally hero-worshipper of Gaitskell and it was this devotion to the memory ot his late leader that led him in Social democrat leader David Owen. His supporter Stephen Haseler seems no different from the Tories.

Mage and Gallipoli. This was not noeral, progressive or in ternationalist — the curses of the Labour right — but populist.

1980 Haseler has developed these ideas and pushed them to the right. Initially he had the idea in forming the Democratic Ananice refoming the Labour Party.

The '78/9 period changed his mind. There was an 'incipient industrial anarchy, a more generalised threat all institutions'.

Haseler's view the aim of the Dallalliculal y take over the Labour Parexaggerates strength in order to draw his conclusion • to avoid a lurch to the socialist left the Labour right has to smash the party.

The gulf Labour right and left is too great and a choice must be made: Shore, Hattersley

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