"The problem is that Hattersley and Kinnock while appearing young and dynamic seem poised to turn the party rightwards. ACTION TORIES IN TROUBLE keep left IR Photo: JOHN HARRIS SoCiAlist people's papers Sunday Times and Finan cial Times are beginning to criticise ficulty is Labour's oppor SUCW with AS THE TORY conference approaches evidence piles up that Thatcher's government is in trouble. Even Tory die-hards are raising questions about the advisability of further privatisation and health cuts, while the Cecil Parkinson scandal is undermining le governches moran The root of Thatcher's troubles however is no scandal, but the growing awareness in ruling class circles that the long-heralded economic 'upturn' is not coming - indeed the capitalist crisis is getting LO E like the pearly The Tories' difThe problem is that the Market Labour leadership.
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pletely disarmed row' economic crisis vinced very few.
Faced left made socialist COSTS ment, HOUSE be majority, policies, socialist to end the while having the public voung 'dynamic', seems poised to turn the party rightwards On the key policy issues of unilateral nuclear disarmathe Common incomes a new approach has to be signalled by the document Campaigning for a Fairer other words, the Kinnock-Hattersley leadership is working har to junk these policies argument that Labour must get rid of left wing poncies to gam ciec success short-sighted and dangerous direction ini points in the direction worsening economic crisis To meet this Labour needs more left wing policies not Without the na tionalisation of the banks. financial institutions and skev monopoles academ government will be comThe policy at the last election - that we 'bor our way out of -COL with a media barrage, of course some wing policies can be unpopular; - being left wing isn't an instant route to popularity. But the question is whether the Party will fight consistently and in a united way to convince a majority for a answer to the The lessons of the past particular the govern have to be learned the idea that evervthing subordinate to scraping a parliamentary irrespective irrespective working class support for measures, bankrupt from beginning It just prepares the way for more vicious must rebuild and prepare for sweeping Tories office That isn't a question o walling Tol 1988, but of moving now support the numbers of working peo De coming into head-o conflict with the Tories.
it macans Labour sup port for the Telecoms engineers in their battle against privatisation: for the health workers fighting against the cuts; for the miners in the fight against tor the peace movement In the battle against cruise and Trident.
Only in these struggles will the battle for socialist policies be won.
If the Kinnock-Hattersley idea is to keep quiet about socialism and to do everything to flatte the opinion polls, then it's not a dream ticket but a encaster Socialism is not a matbut a vital issue for the here and now.
power isn't worth having if it means saying no to socialist measures. Nothing less can defend the enfect. people of capitalist crisis. Nothing less will break unemploy. ment and poverty defeat the threat of nuciear war We should demand nothing less of the nev leadership It's just like I said -Socialist Action 14 October 1983
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