LABOUR HAS been winning plaudits from Fleet Street almost as fast as the Alliance has been catching up with it in the polls.
The most glowing testimonial so far was an article by Adam Raphael in this week's Observer.
explains that stratepy has been replaced by 'a modified brand of Reaganomics'. Roy Hattersley, he says: 'now talks in Owen, of the need to expand at a pace which will not set off a new round of inflation' spokesperson, is quoted approvingly as saying John Prescott, that the unions mustn't expect a future Labour government to get rid of the Tory's anti-union legislation. 'The commitment to withdraw from the Common Market similarly has been replaced by merely goes on. Unilateral disarmament too, he says, is "an option to withdraw" also about to be spirited away.
'What is remarkable, how little resistance there has been to Labour's march towards the centre. But his conclusion is at odds with Guardian writer Hugo Young, who also notes approvingly that Labour's policies are says the hard left - by which he means anyone now in tune with the " to Kinnock's left.
However far the. the Labour leadership has been able to get to date, concur the witch-hunt. get this one right. The evidence for the Observer's view is that a whole wing of the erstwhile Labour left has collapsed before Kinnock. And if one member-one vote is pushed through the next conference, virtually all of the left's gains since 1980 will be under the chopper.
The problem is that the leadership, on its pre SANE Labourbecause course, cannot it refuses government. do the job for which, the LCC claims, made leader. He cannot lead the party to electoral victory. That is why Raphael hasn't got the whole picture right, assessment is nearer the mark.
ed, an alternative is being forged in the very batNUM and Women Against Pit Closures, the Campaign group of Labour MPs, and around Labour Party black section, and others. This left doesn't yet share a common perspective.
under the hammer blows of the class struggle it is increasingly converging. It is the most advanced, and most proletarian, Party has seen since the 1920s.
policies — of class solidarity, militant struggle, pressed and the national liberation struggles - and alliances can build a majority for Labour and for socialism.
left is most closely identified with the fight for the labour representative of black people, and the international class struggle. In this way it has begun to hammer perspective for rebuilding political support for abandoned.
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