Tasks for the left "ROM | Socialist Action 1983

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ITS very clear Now do you see the tasks in say . the left inside the Labour ParWhat are the fundamental areas on which it should concentrate its attention, resources, organisation and I think three things. Support, solidarity — that is supporting people in struggle portant. and also I might add supporting the leadership that's been elected. I think that at an absolutely critical level, which is the level of the parliamentary alternatives open to peo. ple in the election, you have to stick by the leadership elected by the electoral college that the left fought for. I think that's very important.

Secondly demanding the right to discuss, that is to say we've got to destroy once and for all the idea that if you're discussing socialism thạt divisive. You must discuss enlargement of the socialist debate nationally and internationally is very imThirdly the area of preparation. We've got to prepare. And a great deal of the confidence we need to fight the current battles will come from the fact we have shown solidarity, we have been ready to discuss, and we are in the pro. cess of preparing.

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And for the elimination SDP/Liberal virulent strain of anti-socialism very dangerous potentials within it.

That obviously would mean that you think for socialist discussion to go forward in a united fashion you have to have real democracy within the party of this which is with Socialist Action 4 May 1984