A The important thing is that we are very much a free and open party, and will encourage free debate and fresh thinking - we will, therefore, cover a wide spectrum of opinion. The Labour Party probably already covers the spectrum: the difference is that individuals are heard in our party and not shouted down because they are thinking heretic thoughts.
The SLP will be covering, vocally, a much wider spectrum; and I think that people, many for the first time, will be forced actually to think about politics and the application of socialism. ship on the one hand, and the forces of the left on the other. How do you see the SLP's role in that fight?
I hope that we can strengthen the position of socialists in England by what we are doing. One of the tragedies of the situation is that the Labour Party is declining in England almost as much as in My advice to Labour activists would be to try and take a grip of the situation, try to change the party from within. Unlike us, they do not have the opportunity of forming a new party: the time is just not right for that. To allow Margaret Thatcher to become Prime Minister of England and Wales would be absolutely disastThey have no alternative but to fight from within - their chances of success are pretty limited, we shouldn't kid ourselves. As far as the SLP is concerned, we hope to work not only with the socialists of England and Wales, but I would envisage the day when the SLP would join the Socialist International and join with other parties throughout the world to fight for socialism.
8 Angola Red Weekly 5 February 1976 But it is when one comes to the slogan with which the article of 1 January ends that one comes face to face with the bankruptcy of his analysis and the dangerous directions in which it leads. 'Hands off Angola' is presented to us as the central line for the develop ment of a campaign on the subject. But whose nands, comrade roages!
line currently being put forward by none other than Kaunda and Mobutu, the main de facto apologists for imperialist intervention at the Organisation of African Unity summit. These two, who equate Russian and Cuban assistance te MPLA with South African and US assIstance to ts ooponents. merev serve te apologise and to cover up for the latter.
We should at this point in time be calling for the provision by the workers states of every possible assistance to MPLA! In fact, as Trotskyists we are for the increase of that support to whatever heights are necessary to ensure victory! By contrast comrade Hodges With this slogan you exactly echo the