The present struggle is clearly of the latter variety. demands are for more money рнсу workers are un unis way refusing accept responsibility for the crisis. This is excellent as far as it goes But how far can it go?
sufficient endlessly repeat that we need a socialist alternative. This patentiv obvious. The fact is that no force to the left of the Party capable supplying an alternative which would be acceptable to even a section of the masses. Neither the CP nor the far left, albeit for verv ditterent reasons. can fill the vacuum at the moment.
brings disappearing political beaks of left social-democracy that we mentioned earlier.
IDEOLOGY Readers of this paper do not need to be reminded of the economic or social crisis. What has been sufficiently stressed is the extremely severe Socialist Challenge 1 February 1979 page 4 crisis of Fabian and left social-democratic ideology. This has never been as pronounced as it is at the moment. The Labour left lacks even a left-reformist programme We are currently witnessing the most ferocious post-war ideological working class and its institutions. This is primarily concentrated on the unions. It is a reflection of the fact that increasing sectors of society are becoming unionised.
In contrast to what happened in the Thirties, the size of the 302S increased rather than diminished as a result of ENTERING the pages of "Tribune' these days is like visiting a mortuary.
whatsoever. They unionists; feminists and black HYSTERICAL Add to these the hysterical diatribes of Paul Johnson in the on the Daily Standard or the patronising anti-left columns trade Jenkins in The Guardian and one realises that there is hardly a columnist in tne press who is to the left of Callaghan. Keith Waterhouse of the Daily honourable and singular exception. infinitely worse! ribune are Statesman anything, consistency.
Mail and the Evening collapse. Nye Peter • national Mirror is an the old Marxist The provincial press is time as farce.