Youth take to the streets of London last week in a 350 strong demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Youth Unemployment. OUR JOBS WE DEMAND MPLOYMENT under straightforward bourgeois nationalism. mentary road to socialism.
After demagogically declaring themselves totally opposed to the cuts, unemployment and the other anti-working class policies of the Social Contract, they now threaten only to withhold their support if the Government holds back on devolution. The logic is towards a parliamentary bloc with the Scottish National Party. In doing so they completely let the left Labour MPs off the parliamentary hook. Thus one alternative is buried What of the other alternative posed during the by-election campaign? The Communist Party did not stand in the by-elections - reportedly on the bankrupt basis that they would receive less votes than the National Front. Certainly they would have in Walsall North, where the NF polled over 2,000 votes - more than four times as many as the Socialist Worker candidate (although IS finished marginally ahead of the fascists in Newcastle). This is in no way surprising. The IS were standing on a platform which specifically ruled out the possibility of fundamental change through the parliamentary road. But for the CP it is a crushing admission of defeat, since their whole programme is based on the parliaUnfortunately the IS, despite an energetic campaign, minimised the number of votes they could have obtained by refusing to use their candidature to develop the existing labour movement bodies fighting the cuts,