circulate resolutions. publish broadsheets, and build up support for different views A new fight for 'glasnost' and socialist democracy in our own movement, including centrally the trade unions, must be Party Socialists must campaign for its Charter of Democratic Rights in the labour movement.
The forces in the existing Campaign Against the Witch aunt are growing, but we must reject those wno wish to aban don this fight when it has just give up would be tantamount to abandoning the labour movement itself to the mercies of the burcaucrats. Nor is the cammaign helped by the refusal of some currents, including the Militant itself, to build the broadest unity.
In the coming election, lespite all the outrageou vitch-hunting attacks o Kinnockism, the maximum Labour vote is needed to defeat the Tories. A Labour victory. despite Kinnock's proccapitalist programme, could remoralise and re-mobilise central sections of the labour movement.
But now Dave Nellist and Terry Fields have been expelled they under coming under heavy pressure from local activists to stand against Labour. Fields has already announced his intention to stand, and Nellist will almost certainty stand as weut Their candidacies could find a wide ecno of support inside the labour movement, way bevond the ranks of the or ganised hard left. But for these candidacies to be worthwhile, they must seek endorsement in their local labour movements, the widest possible backing within the official labour move ment, on a national and local basis.
Now is note me cockte a global alternative to Labour, and adopt a generalised of standing against official labour candidates. But these two exemplary candidatures, if the campaign was conducted on mobilise large numbers of be elected. It could be possible to strike a real blow against the witch hunt through these camclected, they should demand admission into the PLE as the real representatives of Labour Whatever the outcome of this sorry affair, the responsibility squarel houlders of Kinnock and the New Realists. family and friends are working makes socialising a lot more difficult.
Socialists should oppose festive season. It means workroducts of the capitali: Christmas spectacie. idea of a socialist Christmas!
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