With all the news of rising repossessions, cuts in education, failure of the NHS "reforms', Labour should be a long way ahead in the opinion polls.
But things seem to have been with the Tories for months. produce a hung parliament, or possibly even another Tory victory, given that Labour needs an 8% majority to ensure victory.
Why? While the Tories secret services may have engaged in dirty tricks, they have no real need of them when Labour refuses to put forward anything more than halftive Having spent several years attempting to prove that it is no threat to capitalism by remov ing the last vestiges of 'left' policies, the Labour leadership Socialists for Labour Sat14th March, 7.30pm Camden Town Hall Judd Street WC1 Feb. 29, 1992 No. 17 has very little to offer that might fire the imagination of the millions who have suffered under the Tories.
Where are any signs of Labour's policies against job such as the closure of Ravenscraig et alone suppor Struggle such as that a GEC Manchester?
Labour could only offer its 'total support when the Tories said they would have to backdate legislation to allow the liability orders against millions of poll tax payers to go ahead.
Retreats
Even when Labour does have half-way decent policy, such as making the well-paid pay National Insurance contributions or the introduction of a minimum wage, it runs a mile when attacked by the Tories and their tame media, claiming they will be 'phased in' or watering them down further.
Come the election, Labour Party leadership will expect its members to turn out enthusiastically on the doorstep to say how wonderful Neil and the Party are.
But they have spent years undermining these same activists, expelling critical ones, removing their right to elect their rep resentatives and make policy, and changing the policy themselves whenever they felt it exedient (when the press got tor demoralisation and betrayal indicates that members will not turn out like the robots Only alternative Labour is the only alternative we have to the Tories, despite its policies. Established by the unions, it is still (against its leaders' wishes?) the only party expressing the inde pendence of the working class irom the bosses.
Others, such as the Greens, SNP or Plaid Cymru which
Rolan Adams' parents join the 4,000 strong march to demand the closure of the far right British National Party headquarters in Welling on February 22. Their 15 year old son was stabbed to death by racists a year before in Thamesmead, just nearby. A wreath was laid outside the racists' offices.
Racist attacks have increased by over 140 per cent since the BP HQ was set up, and pressure is mounting on the Tory council to have them removed. Some BNP supporters heckled and attacked the marchers, resulting in six arrests. Home News COME Rolan Adams the BNP financing, but it is a motor stam block, since NUPE and D Anti-Racist Alliance