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Challenge meeting is r the left in I the offenthink since ine lell election losses.
30 U1. m to have se of direcan put that What do you mean?
right have the arment the attacks when the right millions leadership, e prospects seem to be * Foot and amined! company have done a good job convincing people that the left are to blame for the state of the Party and that they're the cause of Labour's I think that some of the left have swallowed this rubbish. But perhaps they didn't need much convincing.
Anybody on the left who accepts that the left al C responsible for Labour losing votes, control the make all the policy the statements, and are the only ones who ever ran Labour when it was in government — needs their head exBut it's obvious that some of the left haven't got the courage of their All the things that the convictions.
Tories are doing now were prepared by the ex-minister or unempiovment, Foot, and the ex-chancellor of the Exchequer, Healey.
No wonder a lot of workers are looking for a change. But don't expect Foot and Healey to expose the SDP. They carried out the same policies.
How does the situation in the unions link up with what's going on in the Party?
It doesn't really, not much, or at least not enough. That's the whole problem of the Labour Left in a nutIt's obvious that there is still a willingness to fight against the Tories, or you wouldn't get groups like the BL workers, who have taken a real hammering, still game to take them on.
It seems only some on the left of Party di c licious organise directly for their policies in the daions. Perhaps they think that the union barons will do their job for them. But the balance sheel of that approach is already pretty clear.
What else do you Labour Liaison should do?
It's got to organise those who are fighting the bomb, organise those who are fighting for women's rights, organise those who really.
If Labour Liaison remains at the level of a few bright — a couple of resolutions to Party conference and the odd article in the Guardian boat Hundreds of thousands of peo ple are involved in these issues. They can spearhead the left's fight against the right, and start building for a Labour victory at the next election.
But only if the left carry the fight through to the end ple are convinced they are going 1o get what they need.
to What do you think is behind the If the left show weakness, the Ken Livingstone in the life-and-death too interested in power think the fighting.
witch-hunt as its first step support the That's the key to it do our bit.
sponsored MP on the NEC noweve thousands of us witches....
it has missed the what's not happening - and these peo '70s.
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