miners over pit closures is certainly stirring, and socialists will hope inal it marks a turning point in mass working class resistance to the Thatcher government.
However, wasn't Michael Foot who 'said it all' (26 Feb) when he told the unemployed to 'rise up like lions' Glasgow. He was quoting the poet Shelley:
Shuke The passage conpolitical poems in English, The Mask of La vicious satire the Castlereagh administration, written in 1819 at white heat response to the massacre of unarmed demonstrators at a mass rally for parliamentary reform in Manchester.
PAUL ANDREW'S response to my letter on Party Feb) managed take over suw words to reov to six of mine.
was not discussing the value of entrism, but the method LaDou Coordinating committed conference last autumn reported Phe res revolutionary tons bul up oy curser. Il tavour of Eleven demonstrators were killed and several hundred injured when sabre-wielding troops charged into the crowd.
The point that Shelley was certainly a better socialist unal Michael Foot. He saw clearly revolution was necessary to WICSI power and privilege from the ruling class.
He fully supported the Irish people's right to self-determination and personal life In nIs tried to develop and live out cessfully) a radical and feminist alternative orthodox marriage and the tamily.
Shelley's work is part of the heritage of revoluChallenge showing signs of going the same Of course, the reason I also llneroe unere is no malo influx ot activisto the Labour Party whom Challenge lilal inere is a signacant crease in sunnor for ine this does not require us being in the party.
finds leftward moving beople whom we can intluence areas campaigns, lalisill allu alli This unemnlovmend perspective of the locialist Workers Party and memnoers ol une inera MarxIs Group who see us as revoluIMG has long argued that Have unlica revolutionary Davis more mooran!
due tactical differences.
GEOFF COLLIER, Hull tionary socialists in Britain, and it is still powerful, Foot's speech showed.
La pity that in this case Shelley's words appropriated shore up the credibility slippery, Letter! tunist democrat will WIIU alicilDl defuse working class selfaclivity party has ridden to power on it JOHN MUCKLE, Wivenhoe, Essex OF ASIAN WOMEN
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