its requirements without сле песа I01 aisciplinary action against them. Thus we can skin the trial and get on with the execution.
The Tribune group's decision strengthens Foot. Lasl the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff's executive voted by az to l maority in tavour ASTMS register. The Collecte Tony SUDOULLE Benn, but the ASTMS , executive general and Clive Jenkins in particular opposed to contest the deputy leader's position last yea after having voted for the democratic election of the leader. The deputy leaderTribune newspaper, under new editorship, now dissociates itself from the Tribune group ship contest turned then into an organised challenge to the bureaucrats who lord it over most of the unions.
Overcome by this whiff of democracy Jenkins has been busily putting rogerner a new coalition. which aims to take over INDEPENDENT Can the unions knock sense into the PLP? the job OI guarding the bureaucratic birthright in the Labour Party, but without the discredit associated Gran tham, Boyd, Duffy and Chapple. Bf htt. And the first test the new bloc is the regiser Party Conferences, register year's
CHRIS PITTS, a Sheffield bus driver, has been war. If this seems a little
By Phil Hearse and Bob Pennington UNDERSTANDING the politics of Tony Benn and the 'Bennite current is crucial to grasping the prospects for socialist advance in Britain. The ideas of Benn and his supporters represent the main left-wing opposition to Toryism and right-wing Labourism in Britain today.
Whilst Benn and Bennism are not revolutionary and Alan Freeman resolutely detends against such an accusation ll sulll remains a tact that genuine revolody socialist movement will not be built without both confronting Bennism and also fighting alongside of had the effect of actually radicalising him. He was pushed to the left when he sawnow use cabilast slalc sabotaged radical change.
prompted Benn take the theme democracy in a way which the Bevanites were never prepared or even wanted to do. Freeman's discussion 'marxism and democracy, his the cumstances in which civil war might be needed to defend against the capitalist class, and his explanation of the inevitable limitation of real parliamentary sovereignty in the Cablaust sale arc probably the strongest part of the book.
other distinctive feature of Bennism is the strategy or AES, which includes limited nationalisatreatment.
The IMF-engineered runs on the pound in 1965 and 1975 would be childs' play compared • to wnal they will do next. Although Foot might be at the helm the strength of the Labour left still makes a Labour government 'un' in the eyes of the ruling class.
To have any chance of surviving in office the next Labour government will have to immediately move against the sabotage of domestic and foreign capital. Nationalisation of control of the imDanks.
phe and ex or of capitale taking over the finance houses and steps towards nationalising the big monopolies will have be top-rated items on Labour's agenda. ists should shun the Bennite forces? Of course not. does address himself to the Freeman says Benn crucia questions This means that the first task is to be with this mass movement the Labour Party and the trade unions where we can fight with it against the right wing Bennism represents the furthest stage of left development of all but a minuscule minority of the working class. There is no ques ton of influencing movement from the sidelines or imagining that it can be by-passed by a new layer of workers coming into struggle. The cond task is to arm the Bennite supporters with an understanding that only a Labour government that breaks with the capitalist class and is committed to Socialist Challenge urges North Constituency September at County Road, London N16 Homerton Road, London E9 5PW.
North meeting printed last week, 30 September.
and the subsequent removal of Militant The faded bunch of radicals in the group, who only want a litthe witch-hunt feel they have some friends in the socialist policies and has the means to implement them can avoid a terrible debacle.
Anyone who wants to understand the crisis of STILISH capitalism the character of the Labour right, ot Thatcherism and what makes better than read Alan Freeman's book Conference against the witch-hunt its supporters to attend the meeting organised by Hackney Labour Party on Hall, Westminster.
Details from Hackney North CLP, 28 Beatty We also urge all supporters to get delegated to the Labour movement conference against the witch hunt on 11 September at Central Hall, Sorry!
Gremlins got at last week's announcement of the Hackney . The correct date is 4 September and not, as we unions. And so 39 of them added yet another stain to the tatty pink banner of Labour's official left.
No wonder Tribune itself pronounced them dead