were pressing.
The timing is.
Far from coinciding with a "ul!', period of growing tensions within the Labour Party.
the type of pressure building up.
ion continues to soar, the pressures in the party will increase.
Disintegration ent developing outside - as in the recent strike by 50, 000 Scottish stand taken by the Tribunite MPS. like benn, is heading for disintegration.
This disintegration trends are unmistakable. I will develop to take shape.
Wilson's resignation last month was timed, he suggested, to coincide with a period of 'lull' opening up before the government when no urgent problems The personal reasons tor wilson's resignation are not impWilson's decision to go coincides with a The recent decision b the Tribunite MPs to abstain on the government's 'cuts' legislation - and their later decision to sponsor the National Assembly on Unemployment due to launch a campaign against government policy this spring - is revealing of Wilson's resignation is based precisely on an awareness ot these tensions and the fact that. in the coming period as unemployment escalates and inflatThis growing polarisation within the Labour Party under the mass discontagainst Healey's social expenditure cuts - is not by any means limited to the The decision by Sillars and Robertson to form the SLP as the labour vote in Scotland declines; the resignation of Joan Lester as Under Secretary of Education and the 'removal' of Prentice by the Newham CLP are all indications of this polarisation. The broad coalition Wilson headed tor so long, keeping within his cabinet both pro-coalitionists like Prentice and 'tefts' more rapidly in the period aneac as the gulf between the anti-working class policies of the government and the mood of masses of workers, expressed through Party conterence, begins indeed revealed themselves in a limited way in the The fact that Foot and Benn should, togetner, collected such substantial support - while figures like Jenkins had to drop from the race after the first ballot - is indicative of the shift to the left now While representing a shift to the left, however, the canditatures of these an attempt by a sector of the labour burto head oft the growing radicalisahave played key roles in the Wilson government in getting across the need for mass 'unemployment' and both, in the leadership race, have not offered any clear programmatic NO CUTS IN PUBLIC SPENDING workers government economic strategy.
was a guaranteed rise lolai lo nave relations exercise' the contrary, of a wide layer of workers (Counter Information Service),
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is only in its embryonic form, at this stage, but the