Strengths | Socialist Action 1983

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Aims them is partly contained in introduction the Briefing interview when it ring his g says 'establishing credentials as our most articulate spokesperson . No he isn't - at least if by 'our' you mean a Marxist left which is what Briefing claims to represent. He didn't repredoesn't now and worth, 'our' tne future. absurd overestimation in the past, democrat who on issue, Ireland, has shown a political courage of which any Marxist would feel proud. Livingstone is not a class struggle leader in the sense of Arthur Scargill o Dennis Skinner. has always explained absoluteopenly what he stands of both the class strugagainst Thatcher and the right wing. , That's what he the past and COOOOCHI that's what he stands for today.

And your attitude to that depends on what you think the situation in Britain is. If we Wee ca socialist revolution anywhere Steal the false slogan of 'Labour take the power' which adorns the front cover of Briefing then Ken Livingstone would be just about the most dangerous person in the country.

But if you take the real situation that we many . years both chronologically politically from socialism in Britain — then Ken Livingstone appears in a quite

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ABORTIONS Socialist Action 20 Nov 1987

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