SocialistAction 1983–88

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

Reviewed by Tony Benn

Socialist Action No. 30, 21 October 1983 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 238 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

Indeed, the challenge we face is much more fundamental than that — tor the object is to use the Alliance to destroy Labour recreating the old Victorian competition between two capitalist parTes unions and socialism can Labour, for its part should also be planning a realignment of British politics but on a very different basis.

For as 'the right reorganises itself, so must the left, by drawing on the radicals who disillusioned with the though that is.

We have got to extend our links beyond the trade unions, the constituencies and the socialist societies who attended the 1918 and drew our socialist constitution, to permit our association represent the wide varied interests of working people.

If the new Register was to be reconstituted in that with its disciplinary WaLe role abandoned, we could lay the foundations for a progressive and socialist that would be politically unbeatable. solute minimum that would have been necessary if we were to have made ally progress John Ross has written a valuable book, in the excellent " Arguments for Socialism' series which Pluto are publishing, anyone who reads it will be SO LIC couragement for the Thatcher and Friends of the Tory Party by John Ross (Pluto Press, f2:50)

page 10 of the scan

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