EDU government if have a credible record of patient and regular work on issues which may seem mundane to middle 'revolutionaries', which deeply affect ordinary people's housing repairs, playgroup facilities, and so on.
We can only win battles like the miners' if we re-build the foundations of the labour movement, arguing for a socialist form of trade unionism, rather than an economist one; winning support at workplace level, rather than simply capturing positions in union structures; establishing Labour Party workplace branches.
Activism As Tony Benn says, the left's aim must now be to turn the party outwards. Not under some false fog of which smothers argument within the party or shackles the independence of the left. But on the different swimming around in the pool of the movement best against the hard reality of campaignng and activism, of actually battling for socialism, rather than in passing resolutions or directing internal propaganda at each other.