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Foot Stamps On· Left INSIDE: POLAND THE LAW FORD'S PARLIAMENT Labour movement must , Shipyard workers in The Lenin shipyards, Gdansk THE BRUTAL CRUSHING by blood of El Salvador's workers and ed only to restore capitalist exploit­ have with the bureaucrats in Poland ists released. On the other hand, Jaruzelski of the Polish workers' un­ peasants. Thatcher is the murderer, ation in poland. All-party rallies like and the USSR. Government or trade union bans on ions - with hundreds killed and in­ of 10 Irish hungec strikers - her gov­ "that at the Albert Hall on January Against them we should fight in exports - whether of food pr tech- jured, thousands arrested and sent ernment is presiding over repression 4th should be boycotted. every section of the workers move- nology injure the Polish workers to concentration camps"- musf call in Northern Ireland-very similar to Instead we need a massive indep­ ment for meetings in the workplaces, and aid Reagan and Thatcher's war forth the maximum immediate sol­ Jaruzelski's. endent mobilization of the Labour for union branch meetings to pledge drive. idarity from workers in all count­ Representatives of the Tories movement in solidarity with the. support for the Polish workers. The We should raise financial support ries. should not be allowed to share any Polish workers. The silence of TUC should be forced to call a mass for the Polish union's struggle. In We must express through our un­ platforms with the representatives many union leaders· in fact the demonstration in support of the short we must create a Labour Move- ions and political parties our class of the labour movement. The$e back­ right-wingers have made the runn­ Polish unions. ment Campaign to support the Pol· solidarity with Solidarnosc. Thatcher ers of the Turkish military dictator­ ing - indicates the deep sympathy We must fight for trade union ac- ish workers' resistance to the Stal- and Reagan's crocodile tears are no ship, of Pinochet and Duarte are not many top officials, particularly tion to black all Polish imports un· inist military dictators whose actions use to the Polish workers. interested in democratic rights or those in, or close to the Stalinist til trade union rights are restored are a cruel mockery of every prin- Reagan's hands are red with the free trade unions. They are concern- Communist Party of Great Britain, and all Solidarnosc leaders and activ- ciple of revolutionary communism .• FOOT STAMPS ON· LEFT THE REALISATION 0 F just how "My aim is to ensure that Labour triumphs the Right to "take a stand", or face more eenn in fact has virtually absolved Foot order not to be swept away. The right frayile the yains of the LaDour Left again. But not the Labour Party as it defections to the SDP, for Foot the key from responsibility for the purge, argu"ing has already declared its intentions· actually are must have come as a has com~ to I~o.k in the .Iast ~ew months." thing was the possibility of driving a wedge in his Rotherhithe speech the day before Callaghan demands the expulsion of the nasty shock to many socialists in F??t IS a wlllin~ tool In thiS ~trategy. between Benn and his supporters. This is the NEC,that Foot did not personally Militant tendency and the disaffiliation the Laoour Part. In one short month Ternfl.ed by ~he rISe o.f the S?~lal De~o- why Foot made the issue one of defending want it but was forced to do it by the of the Young Socialists, as well as rolling y crats, In particular Shlrley Wllliams'vlc, Parliamentary Democracy, an issue so right I Of course to do otherwise would back the election system for the leader ani Foot ~as ma~aged to launch an toryat Crosby, Foot has launched a close to Benn's heart as well, and linked mean challenging Foot for the leadership, deputy leader. Hattersley of the Labour offenSive which threatens to ren· carefully conceived purge. He aims to it to the question of a purge on Militant. which is something that, despite Socialist Solidarity Campaign adds the CLPD and der null and void conference decis- signal to the Bennites that they have Challenge's pretences, Benn will not do. London Labour Briefing as subjects for ions on reselection of MPs, to open gone too far in mobilising the base of the Foot and the ambitious unprincipled Even the proposed picket of the NEC, investigation. up a Witch-hunt on the left of the party against the leadership, often in Neil Kinnock are willing to ally them· called by Bermondsey Labour Party, and Party ana slam the uoor on the en- alliance with "Trotskyists". At the same selves with the right to force Benn to which was gathering wide support/was I n this situation where the Righ·( is on try of self-proclaimed marxists into time Foot hop~s that t~is will ~e enoug~ break with the most active and militant called off because of the Bennites' fear the offensive and Foot is in collusion with the Party. To those used to ueing to pla.cat~ the right. It IS Benn s unforglve- ,sections of his supporters thus weakening of "alienating" potential supporters on them, it is disastrous for the supporters of Benn and democratic reforms in the fed.on the "momentous victories. able Sin, In th~ eyes of th~ Labour Party, the left still further. At the same time the NEC. .. and Trade Union leadership, to have the NEC's rejection of Tatchell serves Labour Party to back pedal or try and kee Benn's closest supporters in the party, DI~gest advances ever diet of much taken his disagreements outside the gentle- notice on the constituencies that the N EC their alliance with Foot. Every attempt far from mobilising a common front to of the left press, this m ust truly manly framework of the P LP and TU and not the rank and file will decide on to isolate the Left withi n the Party must fight in defence of "Militant" and against have been a bewildering experience. leadership and to have appealed instead Who will stand as MP whatever conference be challenged. Bermondsey and every the right·wing offensive, have been taking As we said after the Sept. 81 Brighton to the rank and file of the party and decisions say. Foot only needs now to other constituency where the NEC vetoes Conference"the conference itself was a even, to a lesser extent, the trade unions. consolidate this position by lining up the their distance from the "hard left". Not democratically elected candidates,must decisive victory for the anti·reform, anti· In this Benn had to rely on the willing trade union block votes and thus ensure only did the most' recent meeting of the refuse to back down. If genuine candidate Benn forces" (W.P.No.26, Oct.81). footsoldiers of the centrist left- who a united right/centre-left front at the LCC spurn yet again the idea of a unified of local labour parties have to be stood The new coalition which emerged from with their members, committment and next conference. This undoubtedly will "Bennite" organisation in the face of the against NEC imposed ones then the res· Brighton of Right and Centre· Right newspapers - Militant, Socialist Challenge be the major' purpose of the conference right wing onslaught, but concentrated ponsibility for splitting the Labour votes trade union block votes ensured that the and Socialist Organiser' provided an impor· organised by the "Trade Unions for a on calling for an "open register" of all lies with the Right labour bureaucrats, lefts hold on the N.E.C. was broken, and tant spine to Benn's campaign. Labour Victory" of trade union leaders left organisations withi n the Labour Party­ not with the Left. Every attempt must that the manifesto remained securely This is the significance of Foot's block· and leading NEC members. a decision which the Guardian comments be made to link up individuals, wards, in the hands of Foot and the PLP. These ing of TatcheWs nomination. The nom· was "indicative of the belief within the and constituencies in a national body ' t th' committee that while it has nothing to were the weapons handed by the Right ination of Tatchell undoubtedly enraged Benn s response 0 e coming purge committed to fighting every purge and to Foot who was determined he should the Right, not because of his politics· has been predictable. While declaring hide, oth.er gro~ps may b? less r~ad~, to expulsion. Most importantly" this use them to the full to discipline the which are closer to Peter Hain than Ted his willingness to "fight like a tiger to open t~elr affairS to publiC scrutinY means fighting in the unions to take the left. Only in this way could the right Grant, but because he represented the prevent expulsions and proscriptions" the - (Guardian, Dec.23,811. bloc votes out of the hands of the bureau­ hope:to remove the obstacle to "their" breaking of the stranglehold of the Right animal in question appears a particularly crats and under the control of the rank party becoming once again the trusted wing over a key constituency. Bob Mellish, toothless specimen. Despite Socialist Foot appears to be succeeding and file. Only this can guarantee the alternative party of the bourgeoisie and doyen of the Right/and his cronies on Challenge's belief that Benn has made in his intention of isolating the hard left, defeat of Foot's plans Within the party.
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