ACTiON the poll.
Events so far have also decisively answered the question of what: framework of campaign Labour should have been running. The most fundamental lessons, that the the agenda wins, is actually being to some degree abolied Take what was happening prior to the election Labour accepted an agenda dictated by its opponents. Walworth Road was thrashing around trying to that it coula bash Black Sections. Before that the message that wasn't really a party that supported lesbian and gay rights. It was the same tactic Militant at ce 1985 con show "bash sciously right wing What was the result? abou enteres une canpaign in a disastrous posi LON. the NEC and Kinnock were in full cry witchhunting the Black Section and Sharon Atkin, Labour's support was down at 29 per cent. It was third in the polls in one It was the same followhappened, has been better than one could have expected and than very many party members feared. Naturally it has nothing to do with a socialist campaign, but at least the leadership has not been committing disastrous own goals. The result is that unless something catastrophic is done in the last week of the campaign, there is every chance that Labour's vote will be significantly above the level of 1983. That will be an important element in the relation of forces. Every worker in Britain will feel more confident if, on 12 June, Labour has significantly increased its position in ment was, illustrates this point perfectly. If Labour allows its opponents, or the Fleet Street press, to dictate the political agenda, the lavou movercul osc Point The point was shown bentectv cervasineeec ton started. As soon as the CICCLIO1 Wal announced thank god, Labour dropped all the 'bash the left, expel the black section, denounce the gays' emphasis. It in stead began to pump out an unremmitting stream of material on the theme of 'save the health service, cut unemployment, our schools The result is that Laboul lapiul Apart inserting •arrolkrock's speech a Militant into the first TV broadcast, bluntly didn't affect things VilC or tne other Labour, for once, stuck to what Bryan Gould explain ed in Labour Party News:
Our opponents will be lob. bing hand grenades at us throughout : the campaign, trying to distract us from the issue on which we can WIll just going to men and 22 per cent among To give some : idea what that means if, on the national figures, were running at the same level among women as were among men it would be four per cent higher in the national polls breathing down the Tories Yet Labour has easily the best policies for women this The introduction of a national minimum wage is the single traditional working class issues' jobs, housing, of education Labour has recovered from the absolute disaster it faced on the line of 'bash the it blacks, abandon the gays and lesbians, we can bash recovered to a level at which The steps which are necessary •to win, into the framework pushed by the leadership.
This framework started It is not possible that round in an el campaign because th of the relation of which determine decided campaign but outsi The most crucial Labour's activity had must Thatcher wins supporting every sect the working class th struggle.
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the to 35 per Mt. By 27 Way it hit 37 percent