What next for union new realists? A partnership with the Liberals? issue is precisely how to create a new consensus for radical social change, capable of making deep inroads into the millions who voted Conservative.
Indeed there are really just two internally coherent responses to the debacle of Kinnockism. The first is the new coalitionism, the second is that defended by broad sections of the hard left. The only answer to Kinnockism's critics from the right is to fight for the rebuilding of working class combativity and a radical socialist alternative capable of putting the working class on the offensive.
For the working class is still hugely the mast massive class in Britain. With that power mobilised behind a labour movement on the offensive, the hard-core pro-Tory forces in Britain would be exposed for the tiny minority they are.
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