THIS YEAR'S Labour Party general election: The first, by. turning its back on the miners, minister, as a more effective 'hammer of the left' than David Owen or David Steele.
The second process the continuing out of miners' strike of a Labour left of a quite different type to anything seen since at least War The NUM left' around the the black SECUOUS Campaign Group of MPs was a clear minoritv in the conterence, but minority which, because it is based on class struggle, was able to impose some defeats Kinnock Disaster Kinnock the fighting left are the forces whose struggle will dominate the life of the between and the general election. They represent the basic choices taking une labour movement.
Kinnock the won plaudits of the Tory press Bournemouth by signalling that his proThatcherism. Instead he aims. . IO take chief planks as the starting point any government.
Hence the essential COLICIL of the was abandoning the oblecuve or restoring full employment the industries privatised by the Tories. On trade union law the aim is to retain the key elements of Thatcher's anti-union legislation. In addition Kinnock wants to be able to guarantee a deal Lessons with the union to restrict pay increases.
fundamentals this programme the the Liberal-SDP Where they differ the Alliance, unlike Kinwishes also to break the links between the unions Party, and, ultimately, to drive through split in the TUC itself.
But Kinnock's project 15 not IWG The tions fulfilled.
first is to achieve a deal with the key sections of the bureaucracy on pay policy and trade union law. KinTodd's impromptu defence of the NUM, in which specically rulea out pay restraint, showed just far Kinnock has to go.
But gress is based on the fact that Ron Todd, Jimmy Кларр Rodney Bickerstaffe don't have They ac cept that Labour can only nave a chance or winne the general election if it is united under the was dominated by two processes which will remain the key to Labour Party politics between now and the quite obviously, is Neil Kinnock's campaign to make Labour 'fit to govern' on cities like Liverpool and on the black communities. Kinnock quite consciously used this conference to project himself as acceptable capitalist candidate for prime is that under KinLOCKS orably unity around his and policies. This is why - the Committee Tribune, so on port miners, Kinnock The of for the touchstone demonstrated in cynical with lastvote Tribune *Michael Meacher, Calle Nowhere there any comradely they he was wrong, he had acted courageously ana others reservations about the NUM but do other than back demands of the miners' will find it difficult defeat this left and express, vance for movement Kinnock against Thatcher xinnock 'We believe the next general will condemning those in çurrent Tribune advocates voling win Ine I in today's 'emotional light' Final vote when forms Lovelluci Thus Kinnock succeeded in winning over a section of the left The trajectory Kinnock of this re-aligned left' is to the right. It is not arguments. It reflects the of strike on the Labour Party, and the failure of a section of the left to organise that