THE RHETORIC at this year's Labour Party conference will be dominated by the miners' strike. On the face of it the contrast between the situation last year and this year's conference could hardly greater.
general election defeat. The TUC congress had seen the 'new realist' right sweep to leadership. At the party conference the dream ticket rode in under the banner of unity — linking Kinnock firmly to those who had sabotaged Labour's election chances. This ear, after seven strike, the situation in the struggle has been transformed. Endless declarations will be made ∞ or e ers the need to defend local democrac issues. But under the surface Kinnock, backed by the 'new realists' of last year, is taking the Labour leadership firmly to the right.
The role of the dream ticket in the miners' strike one part support and nine parts demanding a ballot alt acnouncing 'violent picketing' has been a disgrace to the par. ty. The left seized the victory in Liverpool against by Kinnock. Livingstone, fresh from GLC campaign triumphs, is not the type of image Kinnock is eager to project.
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The realist' strategy, 1UC in 1983. was kicked into touch in its initial form Thatcher WIlCI she insulted the TUC openly over GCHQ. The miners' then destroyed the that the working class was, Last year the movement was in the wake of the defeated and had shifted these setbacks only i caused the new realists' to alter their aims. DEMO LASTICE tactics, Contrary 10L their 'new realism' has away at all.
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with weakened to the But I met the manager and he assured me that the economy is on NUJ pickets at Warrington pragmatic adaptation to whatever anu-union laws the government of the day adopt. they also seek a Labour Party with it fit to govern in the eyes of the ruling class. least, fit to make a coalition with the Alliance.
Inese policies ing their movement. We saw it in action over NGA dispute, and over GCHQ with the offer of a no strike agreement. Indeed, no-strike agreements are now common-place.
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