Defend NUM | Socialist Action 1983

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the rising expectations, there was a ter•disenchantment, followed by a swing to the right and socialism would go down in the subsequent debacle. Our job is to see that doesn't happen.

Now may I say something about ertain cul-de-sacs which the left must void - the false trails. First of all the imptation to respond personally to aticks on the left that onally. don't believe esonance with the public. I don't think On's the right way forward. Secondly, I Don't think that the right way forward because to be quite candid, I think that it that happens, the desire to deteat Thatcher would be so great that the left's strength would not in any way be reflected in the oulconIc O1 Their strength les made perthat has for their election campaign.

of transformation, unanswerable. leadership such a alwavs you are going to discuss what transformation would be If you doubt what I say, look at the Tory Party who have never believed that their strength lay in parliament.

outside parliament, but they need people inside parliament to control the statute book, to enrich the people outside parliament who pay That view of parliament, as the control of the statute book being part of the process seems to me to be We too need the statute book to control the state, to prevent it from enslaving us, to deal with certain economic questions, to liberate or to enfranchise working people (I've never liked the phrase 'empower the working thought they had power but didn't use it), but we would about. 9 that such such an argument was the beginning of greatest working class struggle in the history of Britain, the miners' That was not supposed to be able ever to happen again. And if it happened, it was supposed to be seen as irrelevant.

"Don't think we'll do what Mitterrand did. He came unstuck, so we won't even try it. Full employment is therefore no longer on the agenda.)

Actually, the miners' strike mobilised the very alliance that we're talking the LIAISON T LIA LIAISON TIEN

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is to try and personalise the argument by a challenge to the