ALTERNATIVE POLICIES DON'T GROW ON TREES. DONATE NOW Republic of Syna'.
Under the benevolent' and progressive regime of the Iraq are hounded. tortured and executed. The devout Mosler Colonel Caddafi might have a soft spot for some of the WRP leaders, but the posters in Tripoli and Benghazi are quite cleur that Trotskyists and such like are not welcome. They boldly proclaim: *Party Politics is Treason' Meanwhile Syria still keeps its troops in Lebanon after stepping in to keep the PLO In line - an intervention grateTally supported by American Unfortunately, the fact that the WRP is standing 60 candi dates many people who are starting to for an alternative reformism it will appear in thar light.
Once again, the failure of the British far left to scand a united state is comine home to roost. If the Socialist Workers Party ad agreed to such a propos here is no doubt the joir forces of Socialist Unity and the SWP would have attracted Far wider support than che A joint slate would almost certainly have been able to field 50 candidates, getting media time and far broader support than Socialist Unity will gather, though they would no have uny oil in their sandhills! BASEERA this сапо D 8 revolutionary organisation, the WRP, is able to put itself across as the biggest alternative to reformismo, with its shrill cry that civil war in only a short step away.
Socialist Challenge 26 April 1979 page 6 FOR R LRBDUR VETORY TED KNIGHT speaking at SCLV conference last year 'rock the boat" about the words, TAISE responded?
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various policies have ELECTIONS are the time when the pressure 1s greates inside the Labour Party not 1c in other any чиени is quite Labour govern- Parliamen: ment's record and policies. So authority how has the left inside the party The Tribunites, the Labour Committee policies. groups Benn's sup current supporting Militunt have all dropped their criticisms and are working for the re-election of the Labour government on the right-wing Not so the Socialisi Campaign Nol for a Labour Victory, whose decided on by a just a conference of its supporters last are heing pul forward to degrees in the campaigns of the three Labour candidates in London who have and Ernie Roberts (Hackney North), Ted Labour Knight (Hornsey), and Ken towards them Ernie Roberts' manifesto, for calls nationalisation of the banks, Organiser, finance houses, the land and major industries; a 35 hour week without loss of pay to secure jobs for all; an end to troops wage controls and low pay; the repeal of the 1968 and 1971 building Immigration Acts; free abor- -Labour tion on demand: and troops our SCLV leaflers outlining these been phe main streets and intes all leadership the main streets and estates. Bot what they don't say is how we're going to get them. Ernie Roberts' answer, in the interview printed on this pags clear: *througl and the local problem with the SCLV is that it isn't using the election to put Torward an alternative way of orpanising for class struggle For instance, its leaflet on sunply conchnies: 'Vore Labour and join is in working for the immediate withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland; the end of the Orange Northern Ireland state, and a United Ireland, mention Uniled Troops Our Moverent, join the This stands things on their head. What it means in practice istrying to channel all struseles campaigns into barenscratie structures of the Party instead of fighting to turn the purty out The special election issue of the SCLV's paper shows what this leads to when it ends up backing Roy Mason against out campaigner Brendan Gallagher in Barnsley Even within the framework of current in the Party the SCLV programme has its limitations. Nothing is said about how to deal with the major obstacie blocking the fight against Tory