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that extrato parliamentary benches whose class quite unharmed. and how the Mr David Blunkett of Sheffield, I'new, more direct links BETAS ST CAPER quoting at some length. He started by noting the stakes posed in the Labour Partvi must get their support." and they were. Gays and lesbians for the miners this, ROSL able of the support groups: various ethnic organisations, women's groups and constituency Labour Parties and the many trotskyist factions inside or outside of them all provided the miners with a vigorous, efficient and national network of support and at least finan'For the Labour Party in its now continuous struggle to retain a shaky on hegemony over the British left, this Tebbit... could mean one of two finely balanced First, the network of "new alliances" led by the charismatic and insurrectionary apparently unbowed figure of the NUM president will continue to pose a threat to, and erode the base for, democratic war aims. mirror image of Scargillism will have an appeal to many, especially the young who wish to see society change and perceive little opportunity for doing so example, the young Fabians. The right-wing union leaders will not be able to control their militants because the government deprives them of a firm ground on which to stand - heard and consulted.. there is nothing to be got from tripartism: nothing but cuts in public ser- a new "steady state" vices and exhortations to cut wages if constituency Parties, increasingly divorced from the ordinary working class and still swoon- political intents. ing over the whiff of idealised proletarian struggle in which they headily participated, will increase the volume of This was the outcome Lloyd feared.
But he outlined a second alternative: sometimes not 'that the defeat of the class-conscious elements has been so clear, so unequivocal that no one can fail to get the message save those few on Labour's backanalysis roughly parallels that of the NUM leaders — or more accurately tails in behind it. There are no more than a score of these an vhile they are led by Mr Tony Benn an Mr Dennis Skinner, and will get more is clear. The than their fair share of air time, their 1905 putsch has left the Winter Palace The outside left is developing its own right — Mr Tom Sawyer of NUPE Mr Michael Meacher - and these men and their considerable following may cluck and tut that Mr Kinnock did not do The 1 tall to bid for Harrod among ictory voices.
more sooner but they recognise that he is unassailable, should remain so and The article went on to outline the conclusions capital must draw from interestingly indirectly revealing some current debates within the Tory Party. "The hard truth about both these views, however, is that they depend very greatly on the actions of the government as to which of them will prove the more correct. In some respects the second finds some point of accord with the interpretation offered in a speech at Conservative Central Office Tuesday night by Mr Normar 'Mr Tebbit...forecast that the TUC might now be able to put behind it the Broad because oi its abject failure, and that from here on in, strikes would be driven by the members' an freely expressed wishes, not leaderships' 'Mr Tebbit, who has moved in the past two years from the hammer of the unions to their protector within government, is now proposing a new relationship between government and TUC -not one of equals or (as he and others saw it) of over-weening estate dwarfing central authority, as in 1970-79, but of one interest group among others to be 'On this view then, we could be in for of deferential but dignified industrial relations, in which union leaderships will remain ambitious for their members' material interests but no longer prescriptive as to their 'As Mr Tebbit realises, the Labour movement will remain as fissiparous a coalition as his own side of politics has proved in recent years and the constitutionalists within Labour's ranks will wish to differentiate themselves too sharply from the insurrectionists. But they will not wish to again, as they did in the fateful congress last year, give paralysed assent to the mineworkers for every kind of mayhem and promise to support it.' Leaving aside the ridiculous portrayal of Tebbit as a protector of the unions, the message from that analysis political price of the miners' strike has been extremely high There is a danger of an unassimilable force continuing to grow in the medium term if the government does not make some tactical readjustments. Therefore a shift must be made, at least to seeking some more direct links with 'moderate trade union bureaucrats Financial Times'