tracted people to Section, Campaign speakers coverage in the Observer, Labour left -its politics into existence.
Labour Left Liaison is what might first be termed a Cicale strategic left within the Labour Party. It does not alm to bring together 'all the left'. It 1s based implicity, increasingly explicitly, on strategic line for the Labour Party. It is therefore not looking Just to the next election, important as this is, but to remoulaig entire Labour Party and embark1ng stalegy for socialism in Britain As Neil Kinnock, • his supporters in the LCC, manifestly lack ail y strategy whatever for socialism, it is going to be the forces assembled in the LLL, together with similar currents in tne Pariamentary Labour Party and the trade unions, that will be the strategic driving force of the Labour Party. It is therefore worth spelling out what that strategy is as it is implicitly inscribed in the demands of the LLL and as it is increasingly explicitly being spelt out.
The first crucial point that has create, consciously build, à majority for socialism. The idea that suriasil can be meroduc ed by a minority of the population. or that there exists majority socialism in Britain, is absurd. Creating that maTHIS SUMMER has seen major publicity given to activity on the Labour left. The New Statesman on 15 August devoted four pages to the rise of Labour Left Liaison (LLL). The public meeting held on 22 July in London by the Campaign Group — which athear Campaign Group, Labour Party Black for received prominent Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, and other papers. The Observer carried another article last Sunday dealing with the LLL. JOHN ROSS looks at the tasks facing this new - and the opponents it faces in bringing jority is the most fundamental task facing socialists today. Even winIlle a launtv musice une Labour Party is of no use if it is not on a basis which can win a majority for socialism in society.
The first core of the majority for socialism is, of course, Labour's traditional working class base.
Without maintaining this as its core Labour is going to get nowhere.
All of the main currents in the LLL are in fact marked by their serious the trade unions. The CamVal Price, CLPD paign for Labour traditionally among the strongest trade union links of any campaign in the party. The women's Action Commit Tee has also been progressively winning union support the support 0I a turtner two unions, the NUR and Linda Bellos and Marc Wadsworth, leaders of Labour Party Black Section UCATT, for its demands this only llcul -losing even Golding's NCU. The major union, the NUM, to support it in 1984 JE WOl the vote of the NUR NUPE last year, and has recieved its first supporting amendment the ACTT, this ycal. Miners But it was the miners which radicalised and developed these forces brought them together. The key forces in the LLL were those brought together around Photo: A Freeman the defence of the miners - in the same waj that the core of the force grouped around the LCC today were those who re the NUM to the women's black community, to the lesbian gay movement, other trade union, are exactly the type of alliances the LLL is about creating Of course the LLL differs from the miners strike that the campaigns which make up were often organised first through the constituencies and then went into the unions for support. But that does not alter the core of the matter. None of the key lorces In ne ble Is content to remain constituencies.
link developments across the entire movemenT taking 1n the CLPs the unions.
emerging strategic line for the labour movemenl as sucil.
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