AS A sympathiser of Socialist Challenge I would like to take up the of member Geoff Collier the newspaper and the Labour Party (12 Feb). In my view he commits a olsastrous errori his criticism Accordina Socialist Challenge is arguing for a mass campaigning Labour Party and thus retreating the build tionary party.
In my view he is absolutely Party is incapable of carrying through the transtormation to socialism. . Let's not forget that Lenin (as opposed to some so-called Trotskyists) the Labour Party as a bourgeois party albeit with a mass working class base.
It IS not a workers' happens to have acciwnich dentally acquired a bourgeois leadership. The task of revolutionaries therefore is to replace this party with a revolutionary But there which Geoff Collier SWP seem totally oblivious to.
ple in history of a mass revolutionary being without a split in the reformist party a revolutionary will only be formed by a split in the Labour Party and not by inI'M WRITING to prospread beneath Shirley Williams, you 'Catholic allllabortionist and Labour MP' This is offensive and gives the wrong inpression, firstly that there is something wrong being Čatholic, and secondly LACE Catholics are Of course you can say the caption is simply factual which it is - but two other pictures on the are captioned: banker and bon vivew Roy Jenkins', and 'Persecutor of social security claimants Reg Prentice'!
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Heteosary certain conditions', Geoff, tion of emergence revoluInte venton Labour Party today.
This described completely Party to form party party.
be won to socialism eadership, its programme a problem, structures, methods and the split that the right party the LP without splitting need a new party.
recruitment by to a new revolutionary How a split comes about is Geott Collie himself says that 'entrism can but competely fails to give any explanait is, with the of the biggest left wing in the Labour Party for 25 that the conditions are absolutely wrong for any kind not unnatural since the SWP as a whole is having increasing difficulty explaining this very point! At any rate, it is improbable variant that a split in the Labour La revolutionary •au coule take dace wimou a Marxist core existing in that The Labour Party could only revolutionary if it broke with its its history and its of organisation. transformation highly unlikely without a verthe Council for Social Democracy affair shows step would Heve allow the left to gain control of involved.