SocialistAction 1983–88

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

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Socialist Action No. 12, 3 June 1983 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 295 words

The scan: 012-jun-03-1983-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

on the left after the election. Photo: JOHN HARRIS Organisational hit man Golding O0: JOHN HARRIS WHO'S NEXT TORYCUT Whose next for a Tory cut? Labour's manifesto is. In opposing the rank and file on the EEC, nuclear disarmament and incomes policy, Jim Callaghan is acting as the front man for the whole right wing. The right wing attack heralds a full scale assault They will launch an all-out offensive impose Healey as leader, ditch and opposi tion to the EEC and in. comes policy. The left should prepare itselt now, whatever the result of the election, to sweep the right wing Tony lenship Tony Benn re elected as MP then his standing for the leadership of the party will be central to rebuilding the left in the years ahead.

But above all the blame for sabotaging the election campaign must be where it belongs - • with the right wing and with Micheal Foot who let them get away with it Meanwhile, if the right have given up on Labour's chances, the left must not. anne com week the radical policies of manifesto should be shouted from the roof tops and hammered nome or the doorsteps.

FOOl must cease his equivocation and say loud and clear that a Labour will get rid nuclear weapons The alternative is electoral catastrophe.

page 3 of the scan

FOLLOWING their weekend 'summit', top Alliance leaders have decided to drop Roy Jenkins as a leading figure in the campaign and step up their attacks on Labour.

The shift marks a considerable victory for David Owen's strategy for the Alliance. From THS WON T WOR SHUT-UP AND KEEP SMILING Socialist Action

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election period attacking Labour's policy on incomes policy, the Common Market and nuclear disarmament. junks Jenkins, attacks

← Right wing knifes Labour's campaignRank and file speak out against Callaghan and Healey →

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