trying to whip up a feeling that mere is a cancer or ine Labout Party being taken over by exwenists as a way or trying to push people towards coalition.
The real danger is not that the Labour Party will be taken over trotskyists, but that Labour has ready been taken over by the IMF. Because the IMF is really dictating what the policies of the Government are.
The only answer that socialists could give to such a witchhunt is to actively oppose it Take this attempt to have a go at the Young Socialists. Last year the National Agent reported to the NEC about our YOUIT people and their alleged connection with. Trotskyist groups, to get an going. We managed to reject nanow meres to be another attempt.
I very much hope that the NEC will reject that Occause We ve people of many different points of view in the Party with a Trotskyist point of view which i don't necessarily share some with a more 'traditional point of view. and some with a Marxist point of view. And think that's right.
If we accept this witch-hunt on the young people, it will be followed up by a witch-hunt on other progressive people in the Labour ranty. That has always been the inevitable result of this in the private session. But their printment was recede pointment was rejected. Nco nas no ront to ovenur this decision of Conference The witch-hunt has also beer directed at constituencies reselecting their MPs. al- vital issue. If you cannot make able, then you're in a hopeless position - they can do just as they like.
For years the Labour Party nag bedevilled problem that the membership of the whole movement decides on a policy at Conference, and then has that policy side-stepped by the Parliamentary Labour Party. The Labour Party seems to have been so structured that most Mes use me raav as a venice for getting them votes, and then really ignore Party elected.
But it vou've got a safe seat too, you shouldn't be able to think that it's a tree meal ticket tor life - you should have to be acSOme countable. favour of the proposal of the Campaign -TOI Democracy that there should be mandatory reselection of MPs.
I often hear that, we've got a lot of responsible people in high places, and I wonder whom they are responsible to crunch for me.
One argument. used is that MPs are responsible to all their constituents. certainly
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might well inherit his money and politics from fathers. It's not so for Labour prime ministers Heredity has nothing to do pursued by one Labour Patter ment to the Parliament. and compromise have ensured their common stamo on the last fifty years of British history.
The tradition was well once Ramsey MacDonald, the first in line. MacDonald, who is today remembered only for his class collaboration, described the infamous Trotsky as 'a pamphleteer not an historian, a devotee of theories not a slave to facts'. Red Weekly readers can judge Party for debate about trators' cerpts from a speech made Russia by Trotsky in April 1924 about the first in the line of • that's the Wilsons and Callaghans.
*You know that the so-called feel Labour Party does not have an Algernon liberalism. his fore- *These any means the they difference and gradual ways of expense -to reasonablenes.
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Parliament set by "Oh, DowerTur come rule 'And great Trotskyist infilBelow we reprint exin does not There is a Suppose this day tag along at the tail of workers are not by MOS OUSE. simply don't see much between liberalism MacDonald. They "What's the sense of changing our quarters and going to the of moving WHen LE only difference is in the land'So none of the parties has an absolute majority. The Liberals and Conhave stepped back and said to une Labour Pany sirs, you are most party Oh please and be master over us." The British are great humorists, as you know...
MacDonald took
we ask:
What next? How will the "Labmajority in Parliament, that does not mean its situation is totally hopeless.
Way COUT one need only have the will to find it.
MacDonald said this: "To our shame, our coun we have no need. if he added that those sitting in the House LOTES Omer institutions were all the titled heirs of bloodsuckers and rob bers and that it was necessary quicken with joy?
What if he added, We going to take their lands, m and railways, and nationa their banks." If he ad "With the resources release abolition of chy and the House of Lord are going to undertake the of housing for WOKETS would unle tremendous enthusiasm...
"If MacDonald walked Parliament, laid his prograr on the table, rapped lightly Is knuckles, and said it or I'll drive you all out" (sa HOTE phrased it here if he did Britain would unrecog able within two weeks *MacDonald would receiv overwhelming majority in The British wor class would break out of shell of conservatism which it has been so cle surrounded; it would dis that slavish reverence for law of bourgeoisie, propertied classes, and Church and monarchy.
'But MacDonald will no that conservative
while you're away Safeguard your constituency