British left. 1t would provide automatic answer to the question of which organisation to groups would be forced to come into the fused organisation or else face a future of increasing The numbers of the unified organisation would take the revolutionary left decisively out — the size would be al least 4.500 but with the many new members that would join the united organisation its size would rapidly grow to at least 6,000.
A fusion between the SWP and the IMG only represent an organisational advance for the revolutionary left in Britain, politically it would be a big step forward towards our strategic goal of building a revolutionary party — towards winning the class away reformism WHETHER or not the SWP and IMG unify our tasks are the same. Ultimately we have to challenge the Labour Party for the allegiance of the mass of the working class.
But, with or without fusion, we cannot do this yet. The Labour Party regularly wins 11m votes; it has 6m affiliated members and block memberships of the majority of trade unions. It is on a completely different level to any other working class political organisation in Britain go back to the Labour Party Either way around, As radicalise enormous policies of past it has is still significantly Unions.
late '60s, was 'social fascist' — that led many militants to , ultra-left or tailending the reformists, the CP's role has had similar the working class due to the crisis of capitalism or the policies of the Labour leaders - and move to the left away from the policies of the Labour Party, they find the Communist Party. The the Communist Party generally succeed in doing nothing more effectively than reinforcing the hold of left reformism.
The politics of the Communist Party have acted as a powerful block to those workers breaking with Labourist politics. But today it is within the grasp of revolutionaries to displace the CP as the main force to the left of Labour.
The CP is already much weaker than in the admits to a 20 per cent fall in membership and it is clear the real fall is much higher. The loss of a series of its working class undermined traditional strength in the trade unions. Although the CP stronger than the revolutionaries in the unions it has begun to come under some pressure from the far-left as was revealed at the recent conference of the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade It has been broad united front campaigns like the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in the more recently the Anti-Nazi League and the National Abortion Campaign
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Labourism can not be wished away, but we can displace the CP