IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Populist

Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981 · p. 5 of the scan · 272 words

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nas been taken over by a public sector workers. These socialists insult the working class by assuming that it is potentially racist: Certainly working class hostility to Third immigration is a fact of But hostility is not By the socialists this hostility vilified crypto-fascism.

Haseler then engages in a stomach-turning defence of Callaghan's 1968 migration Act and the Tals outburst of Bob Mellish with his vision of a thousand West Indians Victori station and threatening the housing of 'our people'. It also shows just how elastic the A new populist party is needed of the real majority that will be "left of centre" (though not as left a the present Labour Party) on economic coright of esnoes and centre' (more so than the present Conservative Party) on social, moral and internation issues and The real question why does he not go over to the bloody Tories? Pren. tice is happily persecutin he unemployed and Lor Vairey went there yelping about hospitals run for the benefit of Trotskyite porters.

He is obviously temp ted: "The British have in Others of the Council for Social Democracy are learning new lessons. Roy Jenkins wants to cut socia security benefits strikers. John Horam has written a positive poem about the glory of market Rodgers wants to Davic Marquand has tound to his horror that. 'The private sector is so weak that the old slogan of "socialism is our time" is no longer fantasy.

rise the class struggle could some of them to reject even more of their old prejudices and go whole hog.

The Tragedy of Labour by Stephen Haseler, Basil Blackwell publishers £7.95.

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