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result of what they do.
What is at Partv itself. its historic role.
approaching the Winter Death have been really worried about the czar say: 'We're Are vou keen sion? Would the say. "Yes. of course. you're Trotskyite, them What's happened in Led over been a those who have fough:
the black communi: 'vou've from the left.
by doing this, of happening. vetted by MIS. The object of the media today is to excommunicate socialism so that it is no longer a legitimate stream of thought in our society. But if the press came here to dance on our grave. we've got news for them: there hasn't I have tried briefly to summarise what is the policy of the government and why. Now let me turn to what is the national executive committee of the Labour Party - that has to be said too. It is a determined attemot to move to the centre, a shift of power to the Parliamentary The executive is being used not to we had in but as a disciplinary force and io sel Were those policies to be implemented we should have been sending a note of congratulation to the Liverpool council. At the Bournemouth conference, despite the La resolution was passed committing the party to compensate councillors who might be fined as a stake now is not the future of the Liverpool District Labour Party, but the future of the Labour To read the papers you'd think that Leon Trotsky (who I've read about, being a stu him. dend of socialist history) when he was Palace with a pool. bayonet leading the Red Army, was not miners.
The was planning the strategy of the Liverpool council some 40 years after this death.
If you knock at a pensioner's house the on a better pen work, you like a telephone?
Would you like free fuel? Would you like a free bus service? Do you think perhaps we could hasten the hip operatarian movement; not by leaving the partv. because it belongs to us: not Di splitting the party, because unity strength; personalising necause our wage ooiechons usd when they want to attack us they pick a Dersonal de cry lo acsroy lal Del sonality. Derek Hatton gave some examples of how they are doing this to They think if they can destroy Derek Hatton they can destroy LiverThey thought if they destroy Arthur they could destroy the .Our answer is to reestablish within the labour movement the traditions of socialism that brought it into being and gave it the greatest gains it had. business is to restate the demands that working, people make.
the right to good education the right to prope health care free at the point of need, the right to a good home, the right to dignity in retirement, the right to peace. That is our demands, and go on making them unti inev re mel.
Our job is to rediscover solidarity, to rediscover struggle we are waging in Liverpool is exactly the same struggle as the miners, exactly the same struggle as the people or souln Ainca, exacuy lne same sur ug gle as the The capital, which would deny Liverpool the resources to earn a living, has got to be replaced by the internationalism of We are going through very hard times at the moment. al this. socialist movement in Britain today is far stronger than at any time in my life. Stronger Liverpool councillors, the miners, and the black communities who stood up for their rights.
If we are a little bunch of loonie lefts or whatever they call us, why does the media spend seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, trying to destroy us? Why is ine government giving tne ponce lo gas and riot weapons? It is because they know what we sometimes forget: that the ideas we advocate are stronger and more directly appealing to the City of London, the present cabinet, the SDP, or any other bunch of Tories.
What we are proving here in this cilu yuu. Is that another, if our objectives are honest and straight-forward (as they are), if the courage and committment is there if our unity can be sustained - no power on earth can stop us trom suc ceeding This is an edited version of a speech made by Tony Benn to the Liverpoo Labour Parties in that city on Friday 6 December.
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