Inadequate | Socialist Action 1983

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The weakness shown by the left in the face of this determined right wing drive is a fundamental pro blem that must be tackled The traditional broad leftist framework is increasingly inadequate. The basis for it has been undermined by ine economic crisis and the ferocity of the attacks on the labour movement.

Scargill wing the NUM challenged this framework. But ane attempt to unite all sections of the 'left' on an unclear #96 Make another the job Visit Japan ment defeats have taken their toll. But the decisively defeated solidarity movement in the miners strike showed tha the basis for a fightback exists.

This is of decisive im portance in the recomposi tion that is now working its way through all sections of the movement : in the wake of the miners' strike In pushing forward that process, it will be essentia to distinguish between the fake left that will merely talk and those who really want to fight.

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