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Farm for battle Leading anti-democrats: Hattersley and Healey Gang of Three who pose the Labour Party itself, many chief danger to the labour move- political co-thinkers of the CSD ment. have remained behind as 'moles' In virtually every area the to maintain the struggle against supporters of the Council for socialist policies.

themselves ostracised by Labour to stèp up the work of the Rank activists as they rush pell-mell and File Mobilising Committee into the soggy arms of the for Labour Democracy (and the second string capitalists in the other campaigns which have SSE Nobody can have been more relieved at last week's Tory climbdown to the miners than Labour leader Michael Foot.

The miners' strike must have been one of the most frightening developments in his political life, For it raised before his eyes the dread vision of a mounting tide of class struggle driving the Thatcher government from office-and returning a Labour government headed by Michael Foot!

Wracked by crisis

With workers throughout the country clamouring for alternative policies to tackle mass unemployment, plunging living standards, homelessness and social service cuts, Foot knew that such a government would have been wracked by crisis from its first day in office.

He is painfully aware that he has no policies to meet the needs of the working classsince he, like Callaghan before him, sees the task of a Labour government as no more than managing a bankrupt capitalist system.

But he also knows that already Labour activists, to prevent a repetition of the miserable betrayals of the last Labour government has erupted within the Party in the form of the fight for accountability and party democracy:

Defeats Buffeted by successive defeats and weakened by the the left-rather than the isolated Social Democracy have found Liberal Party.

But meanwhile in the This underlines the necessity helped tip the balance towards in the next week.

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There is little doubt that the additional 70,000 members who joined the Labour Party in the last year did so in order to fight for a genuine alternative to Tory policies.

They can only be offered such an alternative insofar as Socialist Press Monthly Fund BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX socialists take up the fight not only against the reactionary policies of the last government but also against the nationalist "Alternative Economic 'Strategy" put forward by many sections of the Labour left.

And this fight demands the fullest democracy for socialist tendencies within both the Labour Party and the trade unions.