ly clear that the commitments in it will be the policy of an incoming Labour government. That is our job and given the enormous urgency of defeating Mrs Thatcher and substituting a Labour government, that is the information the electorate must have. But in facing the challenge of tactical voting, which is a strategy of destroying the labour movement and socialism, candidates stressing the long-term commitment of the Labour Party to a better life for our people.
From the point of view of the electors, the election must de aboul ineir own ical matters ske an. daco .the dole queues restoration of full employmcal, an ena to.tne nousing crisis major uceillc. end to the cuts in the health service, its expansion, the restoration of its basis free of charge; the need for lifelong education on combrenensive basis• the portance of giving retired ople dignity and a tull life based on a living pension; the ending of low pay against women and black people; and of course, the ∞ e • r which is bankrupting leading millions of deaths around the world.
Labour candidates will be listened to if they address their arguments for will inevitable be change around the linkage between those demands the changes that would have to be made to realise them.
Labour was set up by the unions others to fight for jobs, Scnoois TOH good health, pensions and peace. And when we speak of representation it cannot Shmtled lo parlamenl The NUM was representing LIHC uluers their struggle, and so were SOGAT and the NGA.
The labour movement has come to learn that this task of campaigning is not solcy conunecto eectora campaigns but must develop around struggles people to meet their basic needs. That has cerLalnly been true over the last five years, when the the party, and it helped to build a network support cuucal ol aroulnu the country.
Therefore when the election is over, whichever ministers are in power, we know that that struggle wil need to be sustained and developed. Not least Decaust power the IMF and the EEC, NATO and the City MIS and MI6 will be trying to destroy it. A necessary our campaigns LADON covermmer. that its policy could be imDlemented also campaign to prevent others that might blow o colase.
However you look at it, this election be Inlusi een as a part of a long J ULCoS duHOt «oesho of 'democracy for a day' after which we revert to a mere fan club parliamentarians wallll! for the signal to do it all over again. It is this depth commitment the historical perspective and the idea of a manitesto o demands — that will prove be the answer shallow psephological calculations associated with lacucal voun?.
I am sure every Labour candidate will be wanting to put socialism back onto the agenda through seeing the process as a continuum from the early days of the movement to the moment wnen we snall secure a ma jority for the transformation of our socielv. factor above all is helping us in this, and it is the new hope for an end to the cold war which has emerged as esu e toroacer initiatives in disarmament evident changes taking the tion of democracy British socialists have long seen Ene need TO1 the USSR and the socialist countrie nily we have been slower to see that it was that same retreshment of democracy that we require in Britain to deal with the crisis symbolised by the Social Democrats who now present themselves aş a challenge.
It is significant that the two main targets for the Conservative attack since thev came to power have been two centres of democratic influence: the trade unions, democratically reflecting their membership; local government, democratically reflecting community. If anyone had any doubt • the creative power of democracy the that the Tories have tried to cramp it, confine destroy it should be cases some cases enough of the direction in which we should be moving when the opportunity comes 1 am quite sure that il these considerations are in the minds of Labour Caltdidates, the appeal we make will be one that commands a majority support. role of Owen and the SDP.
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EVERY CANDIDATE will putting the Manifesto before the electorate, making it absolute-