'A DOCUMENT that both Hattersley and Trotskyists could put their names to, how one member hailed the Labour CoorAbout 40 people attended the LCC's national dinating Committee strategy conference in Liverpool a week ago, which tried to prescribe the long-term aims of the Labour Party.
The 'long-term' Hodgson, one of the document's similar to the projection of the Swedish and West German socialist parties. It would take two generalons - up to ou vears - to achieve such earth. shattering?) objectives as decentralised, planned (sic) economy with a small market under workers' The conference recognised that the commitment to maintain capitalism in Britain would be seen by the left in the labour movement as a concession to the right wing. But there was a complete refusal to see that the transfer of most of industry into common ownership would come up against behalf of the bosses who own industry.
It was even argued that British capitalists were not really interested in running the whole of in.
don't really want them.
Only half a dozen women attended the conpositive discrimination in jobs and labour movement bodies, and their challenges to male attitudes freedom, equality, democracy, planning common ownership, the market, and international strategy - nowhere seriously challenged existing class relations in Britain. Dressed up as a bold socialist inJust as the Alternative Economic Strategy was immediately adopted by Jim Callaghan, danger is that the LCC board by the centre-right leadership in the labour movement. Any demands that upset the bosses will be denounced as divisive or 'narrow socialism' discussed, nor as the question of nuclear disad left out of the document because 'the party has not HE CIte discussed its policy fully' on this.
was strategy proposals.
defined by Geoff authors, proposals will be taken on Indeed, nuclear power was deliberately
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dustry privately. They would quite happily let us privatisation of British Aerospace, Telecom, local services and the National Heaith Service is all an il-