can foster a nationalist mood among working people which right-wing demagogues will use to their advantage.
CLASS STRUGGLE What is needed in the coming years is not an opposition which attempts to 'prop up' ailing British capitalism or is limited to genteel parliamentary manoeuvres. What is needed is an opposition that can begin to turn the Labour Party-the party founded by the trade unions to defend its interests-into a fighting party, a campaigning party.
If the Labour Party is to grow in the years ahead, if it is to win back thousands of those disillusioned by Callaghan's pro-capitalist policies, then it must be seen to champion the real struggles working people and their allies are engaged in as they try to combat Thatcher's offensive.
Socialism can no longer be confined to abstract rhetoric at party conference. The Labour Party has to show itself as relevant to working people as they begin to defend their hard-won gains. Labour Party wards-often inward-looking and dormant-have to begin to turn outwards, to get involved in and pioneer the demands raised by wide layers as they begin to go into action It is by supporting these struggles that thousands of people will be won to Labour in the years ahead as a fighting party which pioneers their interests. In the course of this, they will add their voice to that of the left in opposing the Callaghan clique and attempting to build an alternative leadership.
DEMANDS Labour Party members in the unions have to become centrally involved in the fight-back only just underway against Thatcher's plans to cut the social services and escalate the jobless total. The demands raised by wider layers of trade unions- - 'For the 35-hour Week', 'No Cuts in the Social Services', 'For Wages tied to the Cost of Living -have to be supported and fought for by the Labour Party It is not just demands in the interests of working people, however, that Labour must take a mildefen. stand on. It also has to support and champion the struggles of reactionary moves. Supporting the mobilisation of NAC against anti-abortion moves or those of CAIL against racist immigration curbs, these positions must become the positions of Labour itself.
SCLV step in building such a class-struggle left-wing in the labour tivists who are looking for a real pro-capitalist policies.
however, is that while its policies are often correct, they are still only 'paper policies'. While supporting the struggle against women's oppression or Black oppression, they have not yet affiliated to NAC or CAIL which are leading active struggles against the Tories' reactionary moves.
cretely apply its demands in the years ahead-as thousands move into struggle against the Tories-then it runs the risk of remaining merely a "talk-shop among the 'converted', unrelated to the real struggles taking place on the streets or in the factories SCLV supporters should be to try and turn the paper proposals into concrete support for struggles as they emerge. In the short term, this means helping to build NAC pioneering these demands in the party itself.
DEMOCRACY left-wing, rooted in the action of masses outside, will come into direct conflict with the right-wing who will use every undemocratic Labour's allies against the Tories' The formation of the SCLV (Socialist Campaign for Labour Vicotry) a year ago represents an important Catholic ghettoes.
movement. Already it has grouped REPRESSION around it a number of Labour acfighting alternative to Callaghan's The limitations of the SCLV, before.
Unless SCLV can begin to conoutside. One of the major tasks of CAIL, or the anti-cuts struggle and There can be no doubt that the development of a real class-struggle