due to clever manoeuvring or something like that, but a result of the crisis in the Labour Party that the years of massive class militancy and polarisation have Basnett, Jenkins and the rest are being pushed all COUL over the place because the base of their unions is moving to the was all attempt to de the work ing class to the deflationary and pro-capitalist policies of an ut. terly right wing Labour governThe workers were right to fight back against it and throw But Rowlands and the LCC have a point. It is true that LACK the old ways of battling against the employers and government are no longer adequate.
But this political argument takes place in a context undefeated strength. The miners showed how quickly defence can be turned into atHowever, the movement needs an overall political perspective. But that perspec
ith a been leadership of ea ings party - the Communist Party op- rooted in the main industrial unions which NMM. From 1919 to 1922, the Communist the (Comintern) under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, carried out asystematic fight with the infant British Communist the Party to knock on the head the infantile HORONS OT which lead them to silly tins such as — two of a kind'. prevented the aP promh Such in ded a serious hearing amongst the mass of workers, dedicated work which they had conducted In defence tave miners during the build up to of a revolutionary without the Black Friday nominious collapse of the Triple Alliance. comprised the Faith its new une elecons:
Party cannot Labour Party in so far as it is a party of the workers any more than it can oppose the trades unions as such; but it can, as it Tory and Labour COCS Winne fight the reactionary junta and had seek to transform the Labour from gaining Party into an revolutionary despite the sent eaders of the Labour par- faith of the workers in the the ty must be tried and outlived by experience. This experience the and tain by their actions It Naional Left In 1922 the CP summed up attitude at the time o in the Labour Party.
*The Communist oppose the bureaucracy is valid. trade unions, instrument of progress The questions DOCauS! workers conference. Communists will help them ob.
was this understanding which allowed the launch of the NMM in the unions and shortly atterwards the complementary Wing movement Some things have obviously changed since the 1920s.
has completely consolidated its hold over the aparatus of the Labour Party. But the same general approach An independent left wing must be built with its feet in the unions and its head in the The organisation of such a left wing will be one of the key discussed at the Challenge HOUSENA with the whole.
the SWP; the fight W bureaucracy as a This is a political error of through its with the bureaucracy can't be dealt with just by militancy, it is a political fight. It will involve a struggle on the mobilisation and direct action of the masses to carry then we agree. If it means that mass action would just be a subsidiary adjunct to parliamenKENT AREA be applauded We entirely support thing like workplace branches of the Labour Party, closer links between trades and CLPs, promoting broad lefts
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