Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Fighting section 28

Socialist Outlook no. 8, July–September 1988 · p 11 · 133 words

sections newly brought into activity such as the seafarers, abortion rights activists and those fighting Links must be made — for instance beiween the fight for abortion rights and the issue of women's representation in the Labour Party; between opposition to immigration controls and the fight for black sections; and between all these issues and the need to build a new leadership in the labour movement.

Above all this requires a frontal challenge to Kinnock's real power-basc: the union bureaucracy. This means a fight to put forward class struggle policies around which the employers can be resisted, and showing how the union leaders have consistently retrated in the face of their attack. A real leadership challenge in the Labour Party has to align itself unashamedly with those left wing oppositional forces in the

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