So the lefts' are led by the nose by the right-wing leaders of the Labour Goverment, who are far more concerned with protecting the interests of the bankers and the bosses rather than 'saving' any Labour Government.
Atkinson's arguments were promptly rebuffed — or more precisely, side-stepped - by fellow Tribunite Eric Heffer. "There is a difference, said Heffer, "between voting to sustain a Labour Government in office and agreeing with or accepting all of their policies? But the point is this: whether or not the lefts are willing to defend wages and jobs by actually voting down Labour's anti-working class policies. Their refusal to do so shows that their 'disagreements with' and 'non-acceptance' of Government policies is just so much balm to soothe their wretched consciences.
What is equally disgraceful is that the Militant, which claims to be Trotskyist and has considerable influence inside the Labour Party Young Soc ialists and several constituency parties, supports the Tribune Group's betrayal: "It would be a serious mistake, as the Tribune Group recognises, to vote in such a way as to bring down the Government. As Arthur Latham said, the Labour Government might be like a bad meal, but another Tory Government would be like a dose of arsenic for the workers.
The same argument could have come from Callaghan and Healey and their collaborators in the TUC.
No compromise Red Weekly rejects all these 'don't fight' policies. We say that the lefts should vote down the Government's attacks in Parliament and fight for alternative anti-capitalist policies and action in the trade unions and Labour Party outside. Such policies would include work-sharing on full pay to combat unemployment, and a sliding scale of wages and social expenditure to defend living standards and the social capitalist crisis. At the Labour Party conference this means that every delegate should take a clear stand against Labour's Tory policies and vote to remove those responsible for their implementation.
There can be no compromise on the cuts and unemployment. If defend.
ing wages and jobs means bringing down the Labour Government, then the responsibility lies on the heads of those who have squandered the fruits of the victory won by the miners over the Tories in 1974. And such a campaign would mean apart from anything else. that no-one could possibly interpret any subsequent Labour election victory as 'an endorsement of 'policies.
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