from the EEC and to taking over control of large sections of investment to them is intolerable. And the idea that they should be accountable to the labour movement is state, and they know you can not be accountable to two masters at the same time.
The over registration going to decide the future of the for many years to come. If the left are hounded out of the Dally then Will have been made safe and the right's SHEKSLOS sleep safely in their beds at night. mOTe radical measures will be ditched, and there will be more of the ASLEF betrayal.
The working class and its alles have too mucn au stake to dodge the issue of regist alon The Campaign for Labour Party democracy has circulated proposals amongst members tor a plan al this year's party to prevent any action on the report about Militant. CDLP describes any action to specifically the report as 'tactically irresponsible'. They favour the proposal which sug gests conditions be down in the party constitution which groups could operate and this would mean that the party execuave woute nave lo prove to delegates at the annual conleierce any alleged infringements of these conditions.
If all else fails and is defeated, then Socialist Challenge would urge vote for the CDLP-backed amendment. But our Is wrong begin by accepting that the right will be allowed establish the principle of a register. The register has a kick out the left and to make the Labour Party a safe and reliable ally for British capitalism and its 1980 Blackpool conference imperialist allies I nIs Is Socialist Challenge is against any form of witchunt whatsoever the a meds we are against registration.
support without any reservations the right of Militant to be in the Labour Party. At present the Mili.
will left gains be repeated tant is the main target of the right wing and any hesitations or equivocations about defending Militant will open the door to further purges left. Building tor the conferences called by Militant and Hackney North CLP are important ways of mobilising the widest possible numbers lav value aralls the plans of the right.
I ne leit or course cannot hope to win in the long term if the working class is defeated. The half-hearted leadership of the over tne nealtn strike anc their dreadful action over the ASLEF strikers serves weaken the fighting capacity of the trade union movement. In contrast the aeterminanon or tne tall drivers and the health workers shows the fighting capacity that does exist in une worker movelcul It is on this capacity for struggle that the lett must base themselves Faced with declining living standards, threatened by unemployment and living the shadow of a nuciear nolocaus people want a solution. The left has to show that it does have such a solution and that an important part of that solution . 1S breaking the grip of the right-wing trade union and Labour Party leaders.
Only by involving itself in the great battles of the WULKCES Cal the left push aside the right and turn the Labour Party on the road to winning the next To comway over the witchunt will reverse the gains made in the last two years and seriously damage the interests of the real labour movement.
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The right wing-leaders are determined to have a real showdown at this year's Labour Party conference. The idea of a Labour Party commited to unilateralism, to withdrawal
something they can never accept. Their ac- countability is to the establishment and its