on a world scale C'apitalism hals treat market, hai created politics. Thus we fight for working scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dietatorships thes sustain in Latin and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding inimediatt British troops letting the Irish people delermine their own future.
The Communis parties in Europe are in crisis. the •Kurocommunis' the pro-Mascon wings have any meaningful for merthrow of the capitalist state. Yes resolutionary iocialist parties are more necessary than Conditions today lavourable than mer the preceding three decades. But such parlies can only rejecling sectarianism and internal democracy not dia luxur! but tra vital necessity. This means the right to orgunive factions and tendencies.
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the agreements Other campaigns, League AFTER organising the speciacuDebate of the Decade' on Monday, the Labour Co-ordinating Committee. meets in Birmingham this weekend.
On the Saturday there will be a 'alternative strategy' The next day LCC members will discuss the future strategy of the organisation.
The LCC was established in 1978 by a group of Labour Party members, including a number of MPs. It defines co-ordinate action in the and trade union branches to facilitate the defence, ana premiut of closely with other campaigns and pressure groups that work alongside the Labour Party so to harness their unique expertise and experience in the work of activists and All this is rather vague, but through a number of conferences and publications the LCC has attempted during the past year to give flesh to Some of its leading members, in country genuinely democratic'; third, articular Stuart Holland MP, have een associated with the alternative economy strategy, the core of which is of planning aimed at giving trade say in the running of the industries in which they work.
suggestions coming the LCC include the involvement of constituency Labour Parties in mass as the Anti Nazi and movement, and the reform of the media', in particular. 'the break up of the big press monopolies'.
The latest proposal, advocated by leading LCC member Peter Hain, is for the organisation to call a rank-and-file trade union conference.
These and other ISSUES thrashed out at the LCC's "strategy' discussion on Sunday. take place around prepared by the LCC secretary, Nigel Stanley, in which four priorities are suggested.
First, the fight unemployment; second, 'to make this reform of the media; and lastly, 'to soreignity visavis the economic re-assert political Taken as a whole, there is no doubt that these proposals and th general history of the LCC over the past year mark the organisation out as currents to have emerged within the Labour Party for a long time.
That its members include Stuart anti-nuclear. Holland, Michael Meacher MP, and a number of politically with Tony Benn also gives the LCC the many Labour Party and trade union influence be used? will be document has Debate will minuses On the plus side, document •We do not believe it is sufficient to rely on electoral policies alone to win socialist advance. number of areas, such as the women's against movement and the black community, in which Labour Party members need to be involved.
should call a 'local government conference, TOM all OVEr denounce the cuts...and seek support for growth of public expenditure. left-wine excellent starting point, but unless it organises action against the cuts and reaches out to establish links with public Ideas and do is Woolly tne least, individuals associated potential to influence does The question is, how will that There In answering this, Nigel Stanley's assertion both pluses and imperial Stanley says:
of ' He goes on to list a Similarly, movements' Stanley also suggests that the LCC inviting Labour councillors the country...to Hopefully policy of planned Such a conference would be an workers, would remain something of a talk shop.
of the more genera problems the LCC face; it retains the Flavour of a discussion group, rather than an organisation going out to the working class and placing itself in the torettont of the struggle against the Tory Government 'strategy' are all ver! well, but what the LCC now needs to translate these idease into There is also the problem that some of the ideas offered are, to say The Stanley's document on internationalism concentrates on "disengagement' from the EEC, , but he spell out what type of internationalist strategy the Labour Party should follow.
rather peculiar that Britain is "former power", and while Stanley argues Britain 'must respect the right of all nations...to control their own future', there is the glaring omission how this principle should be applied to Ireland while it is argued tha Britain should support *liberatior specified whether this would include southern African freedom fighters Confusions thest and other confusions will be sorted Birmingham this weekend. If not, the LCC could remain what it is — with a membership of only two hundred; an organisation with plenty of chiefs but not enough indians.