SWP and the | IMGpapers 1980

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have decided to join the Labour Socialist Challenge supporter.

The SWP is the biggest far left organisation in this coultv wt dooul a.ul members of whom a fair number work in industry.

year ago developments the Labour Party wouldn't merited nave much coverage in the SWP's Socialist Worker.

Daver. Borker cas had ro pisy recently, Socialist more attention.

In terms of united action, SW has been clearly Party as saying, 'We have got to stand shoulder to shoulder ingstone? But what form WILN Benn and •oes mnal united action take?

The SWP admits that a battle has to be waged inside the Labour Party in order to link up socialist ideas with the battles going on inside the unions, on the picket lines, around Laurence Scott and so on.

The trouble is that the SWP is going to leave it to etter letterSFrTERS

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! RECENTLY left the Socialist Workers Party having been an active member for four years. I