IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Labour's tradition

Socialist Challenge No. 225, 10 December 1981 · p. 2 of the scan · 165 words

The scan: sc-no225.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

ment edicts.

Nowadays the Labour Part seems to have lost much of its early radical tradition of resistance to Tory governPeter Tatchell, 1981 All believed that any move against the Parliamentary or Party machines were either undesirable or impossible or both. Aneurin Bevan was one of the few Members of Parliament who was not prepared to accept tamely this paralysing dispensation. Michael Foot, 1962 From Parliament itself nothing can be expected. It is jaded, tired and cynical. It can be, stirred from outside, TUre but only from outside. Nye Bevan, 1938 I'm not saying that anyone should choose only Westminster as a battle ground - God forbid. Westminster would be an ab solutely fruitless place if there weren't battles going on outside. No left MP can be effective if there are no mass movements outside. Michael Foot, 1966 We must look to new more militant forms of extraparliamentary opposition which involve mass popular participation and challenge the government's right to Peter Tatchell, 198/

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