IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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· Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981 · p. 5 of the scan · 312 words

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STEPHEN Haseler is one of the 100 signatories of the first public appeal of the Council for Social Democracy.

the recent Searchlight, have pointed out that for a 'moderate' political colleagues: tank, supporters of the John Birch Society and World Anti-Communist League.

And while that nice Shirley Williams had brief, if embarassing and uncharacteristic on the picket line, Dr Haseler writing for Free Nation, journal of the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) which was effectively organising the lockout.

Haseler's book, The Tragedy of Labour, explains one of the important currents behind the emergence of the 'minisplit in the Labour Party. A number of articles, most usefully one in Haseler has odd Reaganite thinka leading member of the anti-semitic the early '70s to crosS SWORE with some of ElIC other right-wingers such as Jenkins.

Haseler was author of pamphlet gemocrocv. ond Revisionism which argued that the right could lose out it did become populist.

Learn It had to learn from Gaitskell who, in rejecting the Market, stood up for 'one thouSalte years' of history and evoked images The picket. Shirley Williams, and Healey cannot play at being Mitterand and Marchais at the same time.

A through-going split could leave the LaUvl. Party like the French CP "isolated electorally, ideologically rigid, proEastern in foreign policy but retaining its power in society through inHe also recognises that precondition for this crippling split fragmentation ot the umolis. 'In dramatic circumstances the moderates in the trade unions could take wnole umons or part of unions out of the in order to torm a rival less socialist TUC' Certainly a split in the unions would disaster. But Haseler falls grasp that a Labour Partv based on a unitied and militant union movement, that had rid itself of ILKING HOUT up With Workers APEL A

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