SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Anatomy of the Tory Party

Socialist Action No. 30, 21 October 1983 · p. 9 of the scan · 218 words

The scan: 030-oct-21-1983-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

THIS IS BY FAR the best book that has been published about electoral politics for a very long time, and for socialists who are genuinely trying to understand the political situation and how it is likely cent years in terms of the long term decline of the work that is reproduced here throws a very different light on what has happened over the last generation than the one which is peddled every day by the establishment psephologists who have degenerated in their role until they are little when the crisis comes and Tul county while, until a re-furbished 101. Call sufficiently to resume its natural role as party of government.

This book should be stained those who are no being subjected to the press barrage designed to persuade us that abour is suitering a fatal decline, and can onIv recover if it abandons its whole position and tries to re-appear as part of a bigger SDP under direction For the truth is that such an SDP is really little more than the political expression of the Tory wets, and the Liberal party will be destroyed by its association with it. Alliance, and opening up a real home those socialists who have been isolated mainstream of British politics by staying outside the Labour Party. enough abandon the

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