force on the Labour Party left. A whole gamut of left emerging.
These include some like the Labour Co-ordinating mittee, serich are tendea of more seriously mobilising the working class for action.
They call for the Labour Party to become a campaigning party, and to develop direct rank-and-file links between the trade unions and the party.
In a sense this is a backhanded compliment to the revolutionary left. We showed why and how to fight the capitalists government. The Anti Nazi League, shrugbor untheir leadershis found the ot the Party.
The Labour Committee acknowledges this when it debates us.
At the centre of the left's strategy Socialist Challenge 13 March 1980 vary from the TUC'S forces is radical versions such Labour MP Stuart Holland.
Com- However, The core economic governments build up Labour the 1974 programme leadership Labour not carr! out Co-ordinating accept it capitalists could Strategy'. This covers policięs which 'campaign for economic and social advance' to quite those the proposal is misnamed. It is not an alternative; it is not economic, and it is not a strategy.
alternative strategy LOLLO intervention into a 'mixed' capitalist economy. After the war, all Western used these Dolicies welfare services, and to overcome the worst effects of slumps.
Today the alternative economic strategy is proclaimed by Holland as 'the basis of the 1974 manifesto'. The only real change from pre-1974 policy 'planning agreements'. effect, the new left is fighting to implement But why did the 1974 government manifesto? The reason is simple — capitalism canno in a period of economic boom the encourage the welfare state. But the Eric Heffer boom has come to an end.
The 1974 government rocketing inflation, tremendous trade imbalance, and the boycolt and sabotage by finance.
So would confront government committed to the policies of the alternative economic strategy? rush out of the country. Money that stayed in would refuse credit.
be active sabotage of plant closure, government would control the economy because it could not force the capitalists to invest or produce.
The revolutionary discovered by the Chilean economy minister, Pedro Vuscovic, in 1972.
government done anu over l factories disband the hierarchic and corrupt state apparatus, power the faced neighbourhood councils.
Vuscovic called spectre of government mobilisation concrete objectives to control the production apparatus and to prepare themselves confrontation between classes.
Do remain idle. moneylenders would force The next stage, as in Chile, would production, GRASS and profiteering This be unable to identifies apparatus was by TUFI He said that the Popular Unity the workers council, and hand over state workers' and The on the 'initiate a huge Whitehall. of the masses military hands.
we have to years before the Labour left learns the same lessons, and meets the same fate? We can learn these lessons now. The only in which we should place confidence is the organised working is the alternative economic strategy fails to do. It still the capitalist the main policy instrument, in spite of the fact that no one elects this apparatus and that it is clique of powerful are dedicated to private interests and to profit.
The state apparatus has blocked working class advance under every reformist government. The left's own book, What Went Wrong, is full of testimony to state sabotage real government country was never parliament. It was.
Yet the Labour left still asks us to put our heads on the chopping block We say, No. It is time for workers tr take their destiny in to their own