Jenkins Beckons to Labour's Tories

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Further signs of the increasing restlessness of Labour's crypto-Tory right wing in the face of the growing militancy of the working class were shown by last week's call from Roy Jenkins for "moderates" to leave the party and form a new, "radical". • centre coalition.

Delivering the Dimbleby lecture on BBC television, Jenkins called> on those right wingers who find the growing rank and file demands for Labour Party democracy and for socialist policies quite intolerable to "break out, and mount a battle of movement on new and higher ground"

Recognising that the present Callaghan-Healey leadershp clique is posed with the daunting, Canute-like task of holding back a mounting groundswell of opposition, Jenkins pointed out that the only other hope of. salvation for the right wing was in a closer alliance with the trade union bureaucracy-who also tear for the loss of their parasitic positions of power and privilege at the hands of the working class.

But for Jenkins even such a reactionary • alliance would not be a healthy form of relief"

"Centre" forces

He would sooner see a split in the Labour Party, in which the considerable rump force of extreme right wingers would break off to join forces with the Liberals and similar "centre" forces in a new, bourgeois political formation.

His speech has been greeted by immediate opposition from a number of leading Labour reactionaries including David Owen, who on Friday spelt out the "deep entry" perspective which he and other right wingers are following.

"The most foolish course now", he declared, would be to talk of establishing a new party "just at the very moment when, at long last [!] we are beginning to fight back from within"

But there seems little doubt that Jenkins-whose £70,000 a year, tax-free sinecure as President of the European Commission ends next autumnonly made his speech after taking soundings amongst the Party's extreme right wing, and as part of a deliberate plan for a return to British politics.

Labour Party members, however, should endorse Jenkins' call on the right wing to "break out" as soon as possible.

And those overgrown embryonic Tories whose beaks are too soft to crack the shell should be helped on their way-through a campaign in every constituency to remove them from leading positions and drive them from the Labour Party.

'Lefts'

Those 'lefts' like Dennis Skinner and Frank Allaun who have rushed to expose Jenkins' hypocrisy should be called on to explain just what they are doing to oust Jenkins' political cothinkers-the Callaghan-HealeyMason clique-from the party leadership and to prepare the ground for mass action to bring down the Tories.

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