IT LOOKs as if the election will now be in 1992, but the campaign is well under way. Major calculates the Tories have no chance of winning this year and is hoping against hope that the economy will turn round by next June. It is probably a forlorn hope. Despite getting rid of the poll tax and Margaret Thatcher, Labour's lead If ever there was an opinion poll lead built by default, this is it. The official leadership of the Labour Party and the labour movement in general have put up nil fight against the Tory The grisly face of imperialism at war in the Gulf pletely new mood of expectation and self-confidence. Conflict between a Kinnock government and the base of the labour movement would break out in short order.
Socialists have to do what they can to ensure a Labour victory, and prepare, here and now, to maximise on the new mood of combativity it would create. Socialists have to use the long election campaign to put forward their own policies and proposals, to maximise the opposition to Kinnockism in the unions and the Labour Party. For this reason Labour Party Socialists has launched Socialists for Labour as a socialist campaign for a Labour victory. Socialist Outlook encourages its readers to build this campaign as broadly as possible.
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