SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Labour's fighting

Socialist Action No. 117, 11 October 1985 · p. 5 of the scan · 255 words

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followed by the collapse of the mamortv of the opposi tion to the Tories ratecapping laws.

This Kinnock left, in particular around Tribune and the LCC, is now the to COOO campaigns the : CamScargill NUM LUCI supporters. the this editor, Williamson tacks Campaign Group of win social which compromise.

Wishes No section of the British ruling prepared to countenance a governmen de. fends what Scargill did in which stands for city councils defying the law in their confrontations with central government, or which defends black youth involved in the greatest urban revolts in the twentieth century in That is why Kinnock and his spokespeople have been VICIOUS their denunciations of the miners' picket lines, Liverpool the Handsworth, donal Westminster Band Campaign Group appeals for solidarity with struggles. Brixton and Tottenham.

But to win the Labour Party as a whole to turn its back on such struggles Kinnock has to isolate and fighting class-struggle left which has acted as the voice of these struggles within the organised labour movement. That is Kinnock concentrated his fire on Scargill, Liverpool city council. the black sections and the only section of the Parliamentary Labou Party which has supported them, the Campaign Group of MPs. for socialism that the miners' strike demonstrated possible necessary.

Kinnock is leading the Party to disaster by reviving incomes policy by the areas strongest the big munities black people. left which emerging stands for cranele ting those the (including the obstacles women representing ing up WILL the Six Ireland and so on.

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