llenge to Kinnock must be built with those who have the same problems with his backers — the union bosses. The Party left must build alliances with all the forces prepared still to fight in the trade unions, and wage a common fight for our interests as a class.
The leaders have clearly shown what kind of agenda they want. It is up to us to put socialism back on the agenda.
Perhaps it is clearer to see in the trade unions. In dispute after dispute, trade union leaders have put their own position, their own interests above those of their members. They will not fight, they will not offer a strategy to take on the Tories' attacks and win. They will manoeuvre to keep the membership docile, to deliver what the Tories want, in order to be useful to the ruling class and be allowed to keep their privileges.
It is these same union leaders who installed Neil Kinnock at the head of the Labour Party.
After the press had attacked the Labour Party Black Sections for holding an AGM, some members of Black Sections made an approach to Neil Kinnock, imploring him to let the press attacks go by, not to answer them, so as not to provide further amunition for attacking Labour and ruining Labour's electoral chances.
Up until the Wednesday morning Neil Kinnock denied any knowledge of any moves to discuss the issue at the National Executive Committee: by Wednesday affernoon he was supporting a resolution attacking Black Sections, distancing the Labour Party from half a dozen of its prospective candidates at the NEC meeting.
The left must realise the implications of the leadership's actions. It is not just that they are junking Conference policies. It is not that they are refusing to reverse the Tory attacks. The Labour right would actually prefer to pay the price of losing an election, of letting Thatcher in for a third term, if they can defeat the left
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The left must not stand silent about Kinnock "Unity" in the interests of getting rid of Thatcher has not worked. As always, "unity" has proved to be unity with the right wing - on their terms. Action at local level to provide a Labour Party which stands up for the working class must be coupled with action to show that there is a fight on at national level.
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