speech to society.
Comparisons have been made with 1945. But this is false. We must recall that was the grandfather of the wets. wartime government prepared Beveridge plan, he, MacMillan and Heath not that I am a fan of any of them being repudiated ment which is now trying governto turn the clock back, not fifty but a hundred years. Unions So we are fighting for survival. I'm not talking cccucu l caul evel li Victorian times. but the survival of the fabric of society. For Toxeth, Bristol, and Brixton are in- VUl •dications of where total despall can leau. now can we give hope?
We cannot assume that will lead to a swing to the left. In Germany led We reproduce below extracts from Tony Benn's Bristol trades council on Thursday 19 AN ELECTION is an educational exercise: the one time in the cycle when Labour's case is publicly presented. The people can hear Labour's argument, and that's when we must try to change people's perceptions in the direction of building a better fascism, because frightened people duel lu wo right wing solutions. wien copie are lightened and despairing, our job is to be thoughtful and dig deep for Like the Greenham Common women, campaign, we have to dig deep and try to reassert the fundamenmovement.
Non-political unionism, therefore, is a When WeNa the movement should political. I don't mean in a sectarian sense. I mean the purpose of the unions has to be presented politically.
It hes to be placed In the context of such events as the People's March. personally delighted that Conservative mayors greet the march, and that bishops should be stating the moral case for disarmament.
But our message is this, that it is the labour movement which draws together all the threads of collective Women, aculol. people, all have looked to the Labour movement to give a lead.
This is my election, but I have never gone into an mood quite like sent. It not about personalities, on a white come in 4110 everything. Nor is it spectator sport, as the opinion pollsters would have like antithirteenth election in a the presomeone horse could solve and when we show people Labour's programme are showing them a mirror of our experience.
So. I am Ine ex- broad because the Labour Party itself is the protector to an working Western them. And if we campaign 1935 before with the passion and commitment which we haven't had since the I'm sure you'll be surprisof the cuts, ed at the result For the labour movement will reappear, at this Where did critical juncture of history, in the guise of a group trying to represent the interests of all those sections but from who really make up a mathousands jority of the And if we do that, I believe we shall see Thatcher leaving Downing Street on 9 ACTION