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Sleepwalking through Tory crisis Wake up Labour!

Socialist Outlook no73-74 December 1994 ince Clause 4 supplement · 263 words

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SPECIAL OFFER: 12 month subscription £17.00 (Britain), plus FREE copy of Socialism after Stalinism pamphlet Name . Address Send to PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU to win. government is in crisis. Even the Party's deputy chairman is explaining how unpopular they and their policies have become.

His leaked report shows that it's not just Labour supporters who hate the redundancies, privatisation and profiteering and believe the • government is ripping off the poor to benefit the rich. Tory voters think the same. (p4)

But while all this happens, where is the Labour opposition?

From Tony Blair's team nothing can be heard but the crashing of gears as the Party reverses desperately away from offering any kind of radical alternative.

On everything from taxation to the welfare state, Labour policy sounds like no more than a timid, toned-down version of the Tory line that voters hate. No wonder there is no room in Blair's programme for Clause Four!

Labour's modernisers have become so obsessed with their mission to scrap any hint of socialism as we know it that they have quite forgotten the voters they are supposedly trying The Tories are driving away their own supporters. If Labour's front bench goes on this way, and fails to offer any fight, they will drive them away the support the party needs.

It's time for the Party to wake up and put the boot in, hard, to toppleMajor's sleazy gang.

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