AFTER THATCHER's victory on 11 June it is natural that the first week's response in the labour movement is to analyse why Labour didn't win. But the crucial task is now to organise the fight back against the The first necessity for understanding how to fight against this government is to understand vulnerable to a challenge in parliament -purely electoral challenges. What it is vulnerable The time of the biggest domestic crisis for the rebellions of 1981. The most serious crisis of the Thatcher government rest, above all, on how the The first task of the entire labour movement is therefore to support those who will be in a struggle with Thatcher. This starts with the civil group of workers, and others, that will have to against the Tories plans succeed if guided by a strategic pail i one boy for mass struggle and for defeating the Tory and Alllance obstacles to Labour. That has to be a labour movement.
The situation in mass politics is clear. Labour has today made a recovery in Scotland and the north almost to the point where it could form a government. But it is blocked not simply by the ories but by the Alliance in the south still remains third, behind the Alliance, in the whole of the south of England outside London.
rosperous. sections of the working class.
that means also in the south of England, created, for the moment, a solid anti-Labour But the trade unions today also show the same divisions in a different form. The extreme by_skilled, higher above all the EETPU and AEU. These are today 'the south' of the trade union movement. It is the militant industrial union, the NUM is led by class struggle forces - although there are forces that support class struggle policies in other unions.
Inside the Labour Party the Campaign Group continues to enjoy majority support in the con;
stituencies. There are class struggle forces particularly concentrated in the black community What these class struggle labour movement have to have is a strategy for fighting Thatcher - and those who, in practice, her position inside the labour ment. There will certainly be no shortage of occacher government's policies on education, local government and the trade unions alone, not to there will be a whole series of mass struggles in be organised, above all their political perspec.
tives have to be clarified and they have to take united front initiatives towards the Kinnockites and in the 'new realist unions.
has to lead the struggles government in every field -political. Through this it has to develop its own organisation and political clarity, It has to lead where Kinnock failed - in the struggle against the most reactionary government in Britain this century.
the government was the miners VIC Ives. In particular, as this for the inner cities. of concentrating r ensure that The class struggle forces which exist have to This, therefore, is the task of the left now. It against the Thatcher union and Labour plans to crush images tisonned has the Having analysed the asked.
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THE ELECTION of four black Labour MPs on Socialist Action