rampage stopped' the Communist Party Morning Star lust Saturday the for left Labour's defeat. It correctly analysed: "The election result is • serious setback, but not a reason for defeatisms. The forces esist which can throw huck the Tory onslaught.
It noted of its own electoral results that 'in the majority (of cases) our vote went down and this is a setback. We shall need to examine the reasons for it in THE There is The reasons in fact are well contained in the same Issue of the Morning Star. It suid: i the alternative policy of expanding the economy and challenging the domination of the big monopolies had been adopted, jobs would have been provided, prices kept down and democracs extended."
In fact if the CP's policy of of industry had been followed, raging inflation would have been the result.
Furthermore, while the Thaicher's Cabinet marks u complete break with previous post war Tory goveruments.
truce of "Supermar" or R.A. Butler in this administration Even Edward Heath, the author of the haled Industrial Relations Act, Is considered loo radical and "soft" to pet a "The ex-Tory leader, deposed by Thatcher, is still blamed for "bowing to the unions" in 1974 during the Instead of calling a General Thatcher and ber friends believe that Heath should hase stuck to his guns and used the police, the armed The courts and right-wing Labour leaders. (who) have abundoned SocialIst aims, It has not a word ag the 'lefts" who were supposed to he the hope in 1974. What about Scunion and Jones, criticism of whom was supposed to be 'splitting" l 1974? They were the most pelive alles of the Labour right.
As usual the Morning Star's comment on the election shows it has forgotten nothing and learnt nothingemergency powers to cresh the miners "Thaicher's class-war Cabinet is proposing to pul this policy into action without very much deluy.
All this might seem merels alurmist nonsense If it were not used to justify the WRP'S campaign against such cam paiges as the ANls on the grounds that they were "provocations' Meanwhile on its inside pages News Line continues Its campaign of pruise lenders of Iraq In their drive to murder thousands of Com munists and workers.
Perhups News Line considers Thatcher not radical enough in some respects?