immediately after the NUR leadership's betrayal.
action to defend command to register. The Tribune group's decision followed.
As against this Benn has coined the memorable tag of Unregistered socialist, and Iribune nas declared its own group 'dead'. Those who op pose the register themselves yet again to the left of the Militant itself; it has said it is ready to register 'if conditions Militant's lack of against an attack on itself goes with its bouncal on to me real board member Lyn declares Militant that government would have the Malvinas war "by socialist means'!
Kick out Healey, Al ine same ume, even some ol those who spoke out against the war are now unwilling to take the issue to the next Party conterence where 11 would become an issue in the struggle against Foot.
Given these new alignments, what the war are the essential elements of a strategy to ensure that the the Tories and the SDP, and that the act of witch-hunt is rebuffed?
unions' organised Tebbit bill gives them legal powers to do so. But whether they can pull it off depends on struggle with health and rail workers. These confrontations highest stakes. risk being tipped out of government; the working class faces the crippling of the unions.
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This is the context in which the witch-hunt has to be seen. It is an attack on the mass movement, dividing Tories and the SDP. It is an attack on when the fire should be on the the socialist policies that have been won in the past period - through an attack on those who support them.
It is also a bid to flatten opposition within the Labour Party to the inevitable suggestion that, , if at al possible, there be an attempt to form the SDP/Liberal Alliance to keep the Tories out. This is a policy for catastrophic defeat. must be reversed.
The fight against the witch-hunt must be a central component of the left's strategy in the next period - not swept under the carpet as the LCO would wish it to be Such a struggle can be the occasion for a 'second wave' of the Bennite movement. The first wave of this movement, with its emphasis on accountability, met reversals at the last Labour Party conBut the shift to the left and the growing strength of women in the labour movement, , the growth of the Party Young despite Militant's leadership and the successes of left reform movements in the unions in particular on the basis of the influence of CND, show the possibilities for the regroupment of the Bennite left and a concerted bid in the Labour Party and the unions to beat back the right: around support for mass struggle and the demands of the oppressed need our own 'Malvinas the spirit of those important minorities who spoke out against the war, joined by the youth, women, black people and those now confronting Thatcher. Their task is to become a majority; to defeat the witch-hunt and Foot's leadership of the party, to organise solidarity for the industrial struggles now going on, and to show alternative government possible; a government that will fight for jobs, not bombs. This is what will encourage our own 'fainthearts' to — against Thatcher.
Joll our owll wal This is what will unite the Labour despite leaders' conclusions combine show a clear line of advance for the movement; Socialist Challenge, its readership and its supporters, have a vital role to play in