THE OVERWHELMING majority the however, be one peculiar Communist Party of Great Britain.
The oP Will, in the words General Secretary Gordon McLenbe making OWI distinctive contribution to both the immediate and long-term struggle against Thatcher and the rightwing Labour in Bermondsey. What is this distinctive contribution to be?
The Communist Party will be standing OWIl candidate against Peter Tatchell. the Com menist Party is all This sectarianism incomprehensible in the light of the CP's the struggle leftwing of the Labour Party.
of the leftwing of the labour movement in London will be united in campaigning behind Peter Tatchell in by-election. There will, exception - the In McLennan's words: *We welcome the advance of the left in the Labour Party, of which the election of left MPs and the has been one expression.
Yet the adoption of Peter Tatchell by Bermondsey Constituency Labour Party was the outcome of a bitter struggle against the right-wing of Every diverted Tatstrengthen the right's case against socialist policies and candidates pledged to McLennan justifies the CP's 'distinctive contribu- its theoretical journal tion' in the following way:
All of us, however HUSE face up to the problems that affect the left especially and even extending divisions: the absence agreement on the Labour Left on important political questions and the lack of a Communist Party 30031 how political power is to be won in Britain bv thi working class and allies.
But in McLennan's DarL precisely spearheading the division of the left. What more the debate strategy runs right through Communist Party itself with substantial section of CP intellectuals Part coalition in recent issues of No left-wing political organisation can be built by counterposing its own "party building incontinuing terests to the actual strug gles of the working class to of transform the labour HIVYCHLICHL Perhaps that is why the 1S periencing a sharp decline in membership and Sectarian stunts like standing against Tatchell will accelerate this decline.
Communist Party militants should call their leadership to order and demand they end this type of divisive action and throw themselves into the actual political struggles within the battle is of that battl ro-coalitic ing of the CP itse only coet you t200.000
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