ers on the basis of creating united fronts in the struggle against capitalism.
Bourgeois politics
Lenin argued that Labour Party was a party based on the working class but politically bourgeois. As he put it: "Of course, the bulk of the members of the Labour Party are workers: however whether a party is really a political party of the workers or not, depends not only upon whether it consists of workers but also upon who leads it, upon the contents of its activities and of its political tactics *From this point of view, the only correct one, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although it consists of workers it is led by reaction. aries, and the worst reactionames at that. who are fully in the spirit of the bourgeoi.
But he insisted that the Labour Party. at that stage, was a "very peculiar party' and in some ways 'not really a party at all", because of its federal structure and Founding the Communist Party required the unity of the maiority of the existing socialist organisations, a clarification of the basic questions or the pollt cal independence of the party combined with the correct united front labour movement tactics and the existence of the post-First World War political radicalisation. But bringing all these conditions together required the determined intervention of the Communist International. (1) Left Wing Communism, an InJantile Disorder (2) Lenin on Britain p 538 • Next issue: Building the Communist Party
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 44 June 12 1993. Page 14 jobs and services and against the 1.5 per cent pay limit.
SMASH THE PAY LIMIT More than five thousand emergency service workers, firefighters and ambulance workers, marched through London last week in a 'Lifeline' demonstration in defence of failure of its official leadership. socialism, to tackle this crisis. war Tory high command. Facing mass unemployment, rampant employers equipped with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hard-won education, health and welfare services, the working class in Britain faces a real crisis - an avoidable crisis created by the historic Socialist Outlook exists to fight for a new type of working class leadership, based on the politics of class struggle and revolutionary The capitalist class, driven and politically united by its own crisis, ts requirement to maximise profits at the expense of the workers. has been given determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal classThe Tory strategy has been to shackle the unions with legislation. and to fragment and weaken the resistance of the working class and oppressed, allowing them to pick off isolated sections one at a time.