Abandoned | IMGpapers 1980

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Elsewhere we shall assess how and why the economic policies which the ruling class backed in 1945 have been abandoned of the present crisis are Thatcher. outlines already clear entered into in 1945.

In 1945 the policies of the Labour Party were not only acceptable to the ruling class but, by and large, devised by the ruling class and pro moted by the ruling class. To the extent to which Labour's policies went further than the capitalists wanted, they trusted Labour leadership was committed lock, stock and barrel to defend capital's essential interests and overseas interests.

Thirty-seven years later, none of these conditions hold. The policies of full employment and free social services are the direct object of ruling class attack. They are not acceptable to the ruling class. terests of British capital - particularspecial relationship America, NATO, and the Common Market - are at loggerheads Labour's policies of unilateral disarmament and withdrawal from the But the arrangement part working people. were Break Secondly, because it. for around tactics.

above all - its Able.

The overseas into the fore Reform we bankrupt want, in the futile belief that they can take office by promoting what the wealthy want, that is advancing Thatcher's election hopes. Therefore our greatest hope lies in breaking with one part of the tradition of 1945 - the part that involves compromise with the wealthy - and defending anothe - championing the demands of however, a complete and radical break in method is called With the ruling class divided either neutral towards a Labour victory or even in support of it, Labour could coast into office and rule without serious trouWith the ruling class bitterly against it there is no prospect of winning reform through the election of a Labour government unless working class extraparliametary action comes through the ballot box alone is a thing of the past part of myth of 1945 which should be dropped once and for all The Labour Party, one way or the other, can never be the same again.

Socialist Challenge 7 January 1983

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Challenge