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-racive should-price as all the gains of the last sixty years are wiped out using these very institutions The connection between these two stands is obvious: we live under an impera stare, dependent on overseas in vestments. If it is defeated either at home or abroad. Labour's leaders would be unable to use it for their reforms.
British capital has let Labour take office provided it stays behind these essential safety fences.
Labour Party, though based on the working class, thus balances the in terests of two classes.
But the balancing act is getting harder. Overseas income can longer finance social reform, and the Labour Party is running slap bang up conflict therefore provokes clashes inside the party which become more and more acute if class conflict grows.
The purpose of the witch-hunt is to root out those in the Labour Party who express the most burning needs of its supporters. It aims to stop the wing losing control to members of the party. It aims to stop those who are serious about fighting for reforms our rulers no longer wish to grant, who are now a minority, advanced parliamentary policy at the expense of mass action.
The Militant group, which has carried this to extremes, puts its entire energy into passing resolutions for the nationalisation of 250 companies through parliament. This is a completely impractical policy, because it ignores the real source of the left's strength in the Labour Party - the struggles and actions of its supporters.
The Thus the most critical policy issuc facing the Labour Party is without doubt unilateral 6,000,000 union members are now affiliated to CND. If the Labour leader. no ship attempts - as it will - to duck this issue, there will be head on confrontation. Yet Militant, who could help bring this confrontation to a head, have turned their backs CND as a 'petty bourgeois pacifist" organisation, to concentrate instead on resolution-passing.
Imagine how the witch-hunt argument in the transformed if Militant's parliamentary candidates were leading CND activists and campaigned against expulsions on this basis!
The alternative view is to try and construct a left in the Party which is rooted in mass campaigns, mass Wing left wing.
Labour disarmanent Labour.
on unions would be over 50, assemble, in a single united organisation within the Labour Party. all those who do want to confront these unaccountable powers, who do want to confront Britain's overseas role, and who do want to promote mass action to win our most urgent demands As well as promoting a fighting left wing, Socialist Challenge also promotes this second task Those who organise around this task should not see it as an alternative to the Labour Party as a whole and should fight tooth and nail against any attempt at expulsions, or any proposal to walk out on a fight in tho Labour Party. The job is to prepare an alternative leadership through the process of constructing a campaignLabour leaders say there should be no 'party within a party' But they have a party within a party the party o capitalists in the Party say socialists should build another party within a party' -the Party of SOCIALIST Black and white on red backgroung 25p plus p&p: orders . 15p post free. Send you orders in now to PO Box 50 London NI 2XP. Cheques and PO Brent Readers Group.
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against the unaccountable powers it has left intact for sixty years. Class