tactical voting would be to Alliance was burning with maximising the anti-Tory supplant Labour. It is the maximise the vote of the you would think that the Labour Party, just as in The main outcome of take a simple anti-Tory Alliance would mean defeating Labour. would be. Doran/ Refler the Alliance is to maximise its the Greenwich by-election. In the Alliance. The objective of really caught on, the Alliance exactly what the Alliance did in, so be it. This of course is means letting Mrs Thatcher against the Labour Party as of course is just not true of outcome of the election. If in 1983. If 'tactical voting' indeed did just that during would use it just as much against the Tories - and maximising its own vote own vote, whatever the Tactical voting? Embarrasingly for Kinnock, Marxism Today, has shown that 'Euro' wing of the GP of being accuse Marxism Today and the government really have been to the right of whole sections of the labour movement. On some questions they are now advocating tactical voting in all his disclaimers about not magazine, New Socialist - a worthless. Marxists used to dreadful rightward moving to the right of the Labour Hobsbawm's choice? the Labour Party's own ERIC HOBBAW, by wanting a coalition leadership itself.
Socialist Outlook No 1 May/June 1987 present Labour leadership has government that thousands of That of course is something ever there was one, to counter the position of black people in completely different to saying nothing whatever to improve members are racist, which of women strikers at Grunwick. corrupt machine politician if protect National Front. And The arguments used by Roy course is far from the truth, and something that Sharon response to Black Section. violence against the black Hattersley, a grubby and the massive use of police governments have done police were deployed to It was under a Labour that all Labour Party British society. Black sections witch hunt Anater Monrel Kelle' Labour government tolerated shown themselves to be racist racist immigration laws, and indeed tightened them up. A governments have tolerated Labour governments have leadership and successive at all. The Labour Party to the core. Labour Linda Bellos candidate for Nottingham East. who accused the Labour Party news what his response was to top' in her accusation that the dissent inside the party shows Labour Party was racist? Not Black Section and all internal Benn, explained that the NEC couldn't tolerate a candidate response of Kinnock and his right and the witch hunt has Michael Meacher, erstwhile. Kinnock when asked by TV just how far the move to the remove Sharon Atkin as the lieutenants to Labour Party theory at least, with Tony 'SHADDUP' SNARLED Neil The increasingly thuggish Sharon Atkin go over the 'left' and once aligned, in Well, in truth, didn't critics of the decision to On BBC's Newsnight of racism. gone. tactical voters say that Labour opposition parties is primarily supporters should vote for the candidate who is 'best placed' overriding political goal. This that the best way to get rid of whole Hobsbawm argument, to defeat the Tories. But how best placed? Even on its own to 'get rid of Thatcher' as an Thatcher is by voting for the terms - terms which ignore do you work out who is 'best principle - the argument is Isn't there something in the non-Tory candidate who is by-election this would have advocating tactical voting. placed'? In the Greenwich all considerations of class affair under editor Start seems to assume that the Weir - also seems to be Second, the argument objective of all the main In the first place, the been a very difficult calculation. fatuous.
UPFRONT ridding this country of nuclear had all been worthwhile. The FOR THOSE like me who have been active in the struggle at Party conference to reaffirm