Party rank and file.
This is not a small matter for paid intellectuals who have access to the printed word and hence great power.
The practical issue facing UGUE unionists is their fight for democratic control of the party. At the centre of this The Gang of Four - leaders of ing 'SDP policy is clear you cannot reform the Company Law as well. We proach. Isn't utopian even- handeaness towards Capital and Labour the stock-in-trade ties Detty bourgeois SDP which can play an in dependent role in British GalL the class DP MPs by voting wil Tebbit signalling WILTE that, having left Labour behind, their only way forward was with the bosses' party, the Tories Certainly the SDP are important. Certainly they reflect the depth of the They may lead to a change proces. (depending on how fast the class polarsation oro ceeds and how far the SDP is therefore able maintain grand illusion.I But today it is the na tional rail strike the Bathgate ocupation and the stiffening of the resistance or une inoustra trade unions and not the petty bourgeois party?
antics of the SDP which will have the more impor tant effect on the balance of -torces the classes., Based on that analysis I said in my original reply that the left's opportunity Is natu provided it gives a line for mass struggle That oportunity bas ed on a projection of an SDP-Labour coalition car be put off until the decade. The railworkers couldn't wait!
Harrow create an adequate democratic structure to do so.
The alternative is to take the well-trodden path of building a new sect