Outlook Labour Party was formed".)
And the SP draws the conclusion (p3): "...Blair has succeeded in his aim of transforming New Labour into a capitalist party, although the process of consolidating it as such will continue".
The SP refers to the poll-tax struggles and the 18 million people who refused to pay, "defeating the tax and bringing down Thatcher in the process" (p 15) and says "Future struggles in the workplaces, communities etc. will modulse millions of working class people".
At the end of the pam• phlet (p 18) the SP says, (asking workers to join their party): "If we are to avoid the set-backs and missed opportunities... then an organised force has to be built which has a clear understanding of what needs to be done".
We welcome readers' letters on any topic. Letters over 400 words may be cut for space reasons. Write to Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. email: [email protected] For this, Alan accuses the SP of "economic determinism". Amazing! Perhaps he wants to attack the view that the construction of a new party must be based on the movement of workers themselves? He says the SP "argues that an inevitable economic crisis will trigger an inevitable explosion of working class struggle and a new mass party will emerge out of this".
This is not "economic determinism", it is simply the old Marxist position that the working class is the force to carry out the socialist It is Alan who does not say what he thinks the class basis of the new party should be, except that the "scattered" socialists must be linked to those who are "radicalising against the new world order... to establish the model of broad inclusive socialist parties which can be the basis of a mass development when it comes".
The question must be asked: what is the difference between the "broad inclusive socialist party" that Alan wants, and the "broad socialist church" of "old Labour"?
Dot Gibson London SW8 Alan Thornett (Prepare now to fight referendum, SO 53) is right to say that the left has lost the initiative on the Euro, but the reasons for this are not as clear cut as he claims.
That the British ruling class is, on balance, in favour is neither here nor there as far as the rest of the population is concerned, because the working classes of the Euro countries also appear to have been, on balance, in favour.
And if the majority of the European working class has voted in favour, perhaps there is an argument we are missone aroument miant de that a federated Europe with a single currency means a more unified working class, a working class harder to split, by their own ruling classes, along nationalist lines.
The bosses think the Euro's adoption strengthens their control, but they might just find a Trojan horse in their midst. Roné Gimpel, London Find jins and once and