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therefore in an unholy alliance with sections of their "own" capitalist class against the international working class.

*Industrial democracy: a While by no means all such new recruits will be ready-made left wingers, there is little hope that. they are joining to help bolster the flagging support of the right wing leadership.

It is the context of this crisis for Labour's right wing that we must view last week's announcement that the extreme right wing Social Democratic Alliance intends to stand 15 candidates against Labour in the next General Election.

The SDA, scenting defeat for the right wing in the inner-party power fight, is attempting to prepare a reactionary "centre" ground from which it can invite right wingers such as Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and Neville Sandelson, to split from Labour and wage an open battle against the organised working class.

Whether Labour's cryptoTory right are willing to take such a desperate political gamble will depend on developments in the months leading up to this year's Party conference.

Fusilier Stuart SmithBlaine has been givem "a severe telling off" by the army but has been assured that he still has a good career ahead of him.

The soldier's picture was splashed across the front pages of most of the national press last week for hanging from a lamp post, screaming abuse and giving V signs to the Sinn Feinorganised Bloody Sunday Commemoration March in Birmingham.

FOr the press he was a symbol of resistance to terrorism'-a good honest squaddie who let his enthusiasm run away with him.

Bloody Sunday was forgotten. The Birmingham pub bombings iessurected in all its hideous carnage. (The Provos have consistently denied responsibility for the bombing and the trial was a blatant frame-up).

But the story of Fusilier Smith-Blaine did not start on that Saturday.

For the previous week ATV had been carefully building up a witch-hunt against the march.

Interviews were held with relatives and injured victims of the bombing-including one with Smith-Blaine's sister (who was one of the injured) and who said she would not be going on the march but she could understand those who would.

The counter-demonstrators were then portrayed by the press as a "spontaneous" opposition to the march.

In fact almost all the counter-demonstrators were members or supporters of the NF or one of its split offshoots.

An interview with Smith> Blaine's mother in the Daily Mail firmly located the family, given so much space, as part of this fascist periphery.

Mrs Smith-Blaine told the Mail that he had put on "the uniform he was so proud of" to go for a lunchtime drink with his friends and had promised not to go near the march. (Presumably a fusilier's uniform makes it easier to order drinks).

She went on:

"He has some sympathy with the National Front, I suppose we all have. At least they opposed this event... / "We can understand how he felt. Some of the demonstrators scoffed and spat at his uniform"

The appearance of this soldier in uniform amongst the fascists has undoubtedly not harmed his 'career'.

Pedigree

Such a pedigree will no doubt stand him in good stead when he goes on his peace keeping' tours of Northern The Peter Simple column of the Daily Telegraph was of a like mind to the Smith-Blaines as to the virtues of fascist thugs.

After saying that the march ought to have been banned, the column remarks:

"You see members of bodies like the National Front, whatever else may be said about them, are at least on the side of this country as a country."

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