I WAS surprised by the editorial on "After Hamilton" (8 June). method of your approach seemed more akin to bourgeois sociology than Marxism.
How is it possible to assess the significance the by clection result and the prospects for the Scottish Nationalists without any reference to (a) the Labour Government's strictly ahility to claim that it is on top of the economic situation, forthcoming referendum Assembly and the forces this will set in motion?
Labour will be unable to come up with anything which appears half as convincing as the SNP'S rhetoric once inflation starts to creep up again and the debate about the powers of the Assembly gets into full Far from being "set to stabilise itself with around 25:30 national vote She SPF will mov tim without much trouble to fill this vacuum — unless socialists can start so pose a credible alternative based on workers" solution lo the (because yes, we too are a small part of this situation, though you might not have guessed it TOM MARTIN (East London)
The Hamilton and (b) the government.
the that are even Who will independence democratic organisations?
Instead of cent of the and Soviets, of Ethiopia and crisis Eritrea.
The But behind the scenes is the sapport of the USA, which has strategic bases in Eritrea and badly wants to see the Le Ethiopian Before pledging support to groups receiving aid from and capitalist and imperialist forces, the relevant cuestions to ash are How much popular support have they got?
the of Eritrea? How SUCHE attacking the Cubans Richard Carver would have produced a more useful article if he had concentrated on the interests capitalism involvement in ANNE PICKARD (South London)
DA TAURUEN DREAM conditionally.
Earber in the year your memben and supporters argued that the AND was trying to take over a carnival in THMARE, local anti-racist and anti-fascis bod (yes, really!).
The anti-fascist and anti-racis movement is too imporant to wrecked by sectarianism; so come on, make up your minds; you're with the ANL or you're not.
we state unequivocally.
Rank & File Teachers support (and indood are active int all anti-racis bodies. including the ANL, ALTARF BAND FEVIPLESE RANK FILE TEACHERS GROUP (East London) both adults and children.
Later there were singers, but not on a stags, and with the lights on People sai in groups; kids could play. People felt they wete with each other individuals gasping in the dark at there performers and then going away again. be Er the left wants to give benefits that are for everyone and that are a real altempt to create other social forms Df being together in a more Hunan way than the ones we've got now. there will need to be a lot of CLOUISE We think started happening.
MARGE BERER, FAULKNER,K. FORREST, ESME GLAUERT, C. SHATOM (London)
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LIKENE JANE unless BH Our dilficulty here is that in normal times politics are the arena of the class, indeed evolutionary politics. Yet we mu eny them leadership of our partie and of our revolution, precisely because their instincts do not tell then the importance of our relationship with the mode of production.
Take Lenin. Onc person management of factories seemed "natural to him. The factory committee was too slow, too laborious in its decision Take Trotsky, The militarisation of the ruling after all the situation called for it class!) seemed natural to Trotsky Weworkers are from the ourset losing are creating relationships within society modelled on our class needs At the present moment it seems to