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ZUU July 20, 1991 No.5 . copies of Socialist Please return to: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London, N4 | policies -notably Nicholas Rid tinue to harry Major's men, especially on Europe, where the wounds opened up in the oustI ing of Thatcher continue to , fester.
Failure
Not least of his problems is Major's failure to convince anyone inside or outside Tory ranks that he offers any serious ly different or coherent policy or approach that can create an identity distict Thatcherism.
Many of the key Thatcher - in particular the Poll Tax (and Major's nebulous, for the 1980s.
Many of the industries-mining, docks, print and engineering - which provided the leading edge of trade union organisation have heen decimated. And the destruction of much of the militant 1960s and 1970s shop stewards' movement that had been based nn mama ain noel serks weakened the position of the rank and file while strengthening the increasingly right-wing officials, who have reinforced the impact of Tory anti-union laws by refusing either to challenge them or to support any action that might possibly run up against the law.
Major has now scented a hope 'that Kinnock's vicious new witch-hunt-which will be exploited to the full by the Tory press and mass media - could offer the Tories an unexpected chance of knocking back Labour's lead in the polls, to clinch a shock fourth term.
That's why for socialists the fight against the witch hunt, the fight to kick out the Tories and elect a Labour government, and the fight to regroup a class struggle left wing in the unions and Labour Party must now run hand in hand.