We welcome letters on any subject but please keep them brief. Letters over 350 words will be cut. Send your letters to: Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109, London, N4 2UU leaders. In short, I would suggest, it is o stand off. That is just in stand off. Britain of course sewhere the class struggle looks pretty lively although, of course, it doesn't always go in the political direcion that socialists would like that is true in tais county ds well and all the more reason why socialists should be doing as much as they can to influence what does move. Keith Flett London N17 mative and clear piece on the Labour Party as that by Harry Sloan in Outook No. 11. It certainly clarified any misinterpretation of the front page of Outook No. 9 which labelled the Labour Party the 'Bosses' Second Eleven.
As Harry says, Lenin's charactarination of the Labour Party as not simply a bourgeois party but a bourgoois worker sparty is still valid today. to British Communists to affilate to R.
Harry Sloan, in his catalogue of Labour betrayals. provides a strong counterweight to the idea that Kinnock's policies repre sent something new. This is especially true when analysing past Labour esders amtude to europe Not only did Wilson look to Europe for capitalism's salvation, as Harry states. Calachan was prepared to co behind the cabinet to press for further Europeanisation. As Benn's Diary for Saturday o November reveals: The big news today is that summit and has agrood with Giscard to vote for setting up an EMS (European Monetary System] which Britain will join at a later date This shows that Martin Alien's letter to Outlook No. 10 is based on a faise premise. He argues that the conversion And hat the Koso Delors' stratoay associated with ety to the EMU is the product of a Labour Party that has somehow 'changed.
In fact, there is a real poitical coninuity between the last Callaghan Goverment and a potential Labour government. The only change has took place was the rise of BenEuropeanist stratogy on the defenWith Bennism's retreat, the eadershio is now in a positon so pul through the party a positon it has long heid. Sean Tunney and Stephen Smith
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