are counterposed to the struggle at the point of production: they boost them. This is why the ruling class is frightened of the developments inside the party and desperate lengths to halt them. backing campaigns by the right wing, from the Democratic Mason, to split the party:
While these manoeuvres are puny at present they contain a real threat for the future, particularly in the context of changes in the electoral system which some Tory leaders are said to be actively considering.
Those leaders of the labour movement who propose a strategy of pressurising the Tories to change their policies', can draw little encouragement from the Tory reshuffle:
Only the blind are incapable of seing that the government, far policies, is preparing to implement them with renewed force.
That is why the aim of any defensive struggle agamst « me remove the government.
The massive demonstration in Liverpool on 29 November last year revealed the power that can be harnessed by united action of the trade unions and the Labour PartyTories try to mend their o ray, that power should be used in a systematic way to kick the Tories out in 1981.
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