What holds LCC/Marxism Today/New Statesman forces, and their unity in the dream ticket with the Labour right, is that the social alliance they propose is precisely an alliance with significant sections of bourgeoisie.
This is of course most open and completely explicit with Marxism Towhich is precisely why Marsim Today is the ideologically leading force within the entire coalition in the labour movement it proposes. politics is the 'anti-Thatcher alliance' 'the COrE of Marxism — an alliance which explicitly takes in the SDP/Liberal Alliance and other bourgeois forces. This particular project of this alliance is carried through in pages of Marxism Today audacity, verve, consistency and deterLaLIO This projected calition in turn is only a particular version of the 'broad democratic alliance' of the Communist Party's British Road to Socialism - an alliance so named precisely because it the takes in an alliance with a significant section of the bourgeoisie. Contrary to the title of the Communist Party's programme this is not socialism at all but an alliance for a 'democratic' stage of advance which is the quite explicitly not defined as socialist.
This strategy, as Eric repeatedly stresses, is explicitly based on the Popular Front line of the 1935 Seventh Congress of the Stalin Dimitrov.
Today's field between Marxism Today and the Morning Star is not over whether to Duell with capital should be concluded.
Marxism Today bourgeoisie sistently prints Sweden.
The for Hobsbawm TOHUI Communist - the congress organised managed by The fundamental difference on this cannot 'modernising, with the and on what terms such an alliance with significant is oriented to the 'modernising' pro-EEC sections of the Statesman which is why it conarticles by Bob Rowthorn and others opposing the Morning Star in contrast, following the official line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, is oriented to supposedly 'patriotic' sections of the bourgeoisie who are oppos ed not merely to the United States bu also to the EEC. As this latter section of capital today scarcely exists even the Morning Star cannot follow the coherent logic, which would be to link up with Enoch Powell (!) — the Morning Star maintains its extraordinary mangy, , dog eared quality of being suspended in mid air. The forces to which the Morning Star oriented are actually the least dynamic sections of the entire ruling class and possiby compete with pro-EEC sectors to which Marxism Today is oriented.
The support for an alliance with sections of British capitalism directly links Marxism Todav to the New Statesman. The New has been attempting CUL sistently to create an agreed economic basis for an alliance with capital in a whole series of articles in its pages on
W tatesman posed coal Today Hain, SELL on the Left who wish to see Mr Kinnock as Prime Minister it is impor tant now for Mr Scargill to defeated.
Kellner then goes on to add the supqualification that he wishes, 'that defeat to be inflicted not by the board or the government "beating" the miners but by the miners themselves deflating their President.
But that is wholly meaningless. the miners win their demands and strike Arthur Scargill will win. The only way Scargill can be defeated is if the miners are defeated. What Kellner is in fact saying is that it would be preferable for ' the miners to defeated Scargill can be defeated as several correspondents to the New Statesman bointed out Other forces in the LCC/Marxism have different political and tactical approach.
vice chair oI the LCC, subported the be If Peter has Gordon McLennan Socialist Action I# December 138$ lacked the perspective!' contact Labour Party?
of a Today strategic position. How these debate, input of a communist Jacques conclusion was that: 'we need to find more points of political intervention Wils A similar sustained attempt to pre sent what she considers to be the basis 'fundamentalist left/broad left' division has come from Beatrix Campbell. Typical expressions of Campbell's views on this may be found in a major she conducted with Tony Benn in City Limits in January, . again in the debate with Ken Livingstone at this year's Left Alive event sponsored by the Communist and which is reprinted in December's Campbell argues that what we are witnessing today, in addition to the new projected axis of the LCC/Marxism "broad left' is: 'the new sectarian alliance which crosses the boun-
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bourgeoisie. It is over which section of the bourgeoise should be allied with