But strong support has gone from NUM leaders, and others, 10 the FSLN FMLN Salvador and the ANC in South Africa • This is in addition to the unanimous demand for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
individual beginning io carve out clearly issues of the British and international class struggle. It has started to develop from purely defensive struggles, reflecting its social base in the mining communities, the black communities, big cities, and among women to having more clear and offensive positions. Basic issue The lions is that the different components of this left are tending lo converge. This could already be seen in the miners' strike • for example with the cooperation of the Women Against Pit Closures ana vir. tually every other major section of the lefi. In the fight against the Anglo-Irish Accord Iht Ireland and the Campaign group of have TaKe l defence of the black against the police altacks clear suppor! came from ihe black section, Scargill, and leaders of the Campaign group. This class struggle left has also come logether against the witch hunl. dovenlthe the develop among this lefi - allhough different words are used lo express it. The analysis can be summed up in Tony Benn's phrase thạt what the struggle is about at present is 'creating a popular majority for socialism. It could be put in 'Leninist' lerms that what is involved loday is a fighi for the conquest of the that In short the 'class struggle lefl' is more defined positions on the key Socialist the The effect of these common posiLabour Committee on the initiative. communities socialism.
Something of a common analysis of also beginning lo The main enemy in the class strug gle loday is not Kinnock, it is Thatcher Kinnock has lo be fought against when the time, obstructs the struggle against Thatcher Bur it is an 'ami-Thatcher lefl', nota 'anti-Kinnock' lefl, that is being bullt If is this class struggle lefi whic Action identifies with Socialist Action believes thal the cen Iral strategic slogan which correspond to the line and needs of the class strug gle loday, and these forces, is precisel socialism -icat is consiraieg 1o 'bulding social alliances, internationally and na tionally, which the working class need 1o creale a real majority for socialism this country. Such a majority is th key, a prerequisite, lo íhe stralegic goa of ihe working class taking politica power. Il is a prolonged struggle l creale such a majority.
The third force which has emerge out of the left wing of the labour move menı may be correcily defined as ultra left in lerms of tactics - although it not al all ultra-left as regards its generą politics. The most characieristic force of this are Labour Brifing, Organiser, and Socialist Viewpoint.
The basis of the tactics of these cur rents is the view ihal somehow th working class in Britain is engaged in short term struggle for power, and fo The slogan emblazoned o the front of Labour Brifing 'Labou this orienta ake une rower sulIs u lion very well. But al component share this ultra-left view of the situatio Ihal somehow a short term struggle fe power in Brilain is posed. Politically a accomodaie io British imperialism i varying degrees.
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This ultra left however is only reall strong, and has its social base, in Lon