* * * Tony Benn on America * * * Iran/Iraq war pages 2-3 * * * Labour and the bomb 5 WONT FREEOTMATCHER TRIDENT R against Right to Work march Inside Long Kesh * racism and the crisis pages 8-9 Monday.
The attack of hysteria being suffered by the Gang of Three is a direct consequence of the surge inside the party for more democracy and socialist policies.
British capitalism is in its WHOSE 1930s. The Tories in their own way have a radical programme for dealing with this crisis unemployment, social welfare cuts.
These add up to a drastic decline in the standard of living of the hope working Tories measures to boost profits and get our or une crisIs The only alternative to this is a socialist programme - of nationalisation, investment, and workers' contrọl. These In a ranting speech at the so-called Campaign for Labour Democracy meeting at the Labour Party conference, Williams declared war on the left.
right-wing's thinkers serious crisis since the Dreams lower wages, the goods class. The changes; through these services living improve.
and '60s. planning of measures would provide a basis for overcoming the crisis in the interests o working people, not profits.
Shirley Williams and her coOwen and Rodgers want none of that. They cling to the belief that it is possible to continue with the policies of 'welfare capitalism'.
This is the idea that capitalism can go on providing without that by tinkering about with a few industries and standards will Such a view could pass for realism' in the 1950s Today it is a pure day dream - and the ranks of the Labour Party know it full well. That's why they're stepping up the fight for left policies democracy within the party so that its representatives can be held accountable. Fury It would be a mistake to believe that the fury of the Gang of Three and their threats to leave the party mean that the left has won the fight.
So long as the fight for inparty democracy won, the spectacle of a new Labour government. led Healey and defying conference UCES ULES. remains possibility:
Defeating the right means organising to fight against the right both in the Labour Party and the trade unions. It was Union Terry Duffy and the leader of the electricians, Frank Chap. ple, who shared the Gang of Three's platform in Blackpool on Monday.
* Organising against the right — see pages 6 and and is not real leader
MARCH
AGAINST MADNESS Assemble 11am Hyde Park Rally 2.30pm Trafalgar Square Organised by CND
defend the A COUNTER 'MAD mullahs', 'madman Khomeini' - that's the impression of Iran given in the bourgeois press.
Many people who were happy to see the departure of the Shah have been disappointed and disillusioned the Khomeini tyrannical Shah seems to have given way to obscurantist autocracy.
So why do we say Hands off The clerical INVASION THE attack on Iran by Iraqi forces stitutes a counter-revolutionary invasion which should be opposed by all socialists.
That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from looking at the development of the political situation in the Gulf area over the last couple of condrop of blood'. But the real attitude of the hangers-on of the deposed regime is much better summed up by Sadat's Now is the time to bring down Khomeini'.
----- pull-quotes -----
'LEFT FASCISM' - that's how Shirley Williams, hero of the Labour right, described the fight for democracy and left policies last
Iranian revolution