is to unite the left in the fight against the Thatcher government. Today the most important source of confusion and disorientation in the labour movement is that a number of figures regarded by the majority of the working class as on the left, starting with Neil Kinnock, are breaking up annd disorganising any fight back against the Thatche government. But hundreds of thousands of working class people don't understand that as yet - nor will they sort out who on the left intends to fight, and who intends to fake, without a real struggle being waged against Thatcher. And hundreds of thousands of people will find themselves engaged in fights with Thatcher's government regardless of whether the party leadership wishes them to do so It is this unity in the struggle not ritual denunciations, which will sort out the situation in the labour movement. It is what is needed for the fight against the Thatcher government - and for a Labour victory. That is why it should be taken up.
Socialist Action1987Socialist Action No. 171, 25 September 1987
THE GULF!
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