important. The motions on internal reform symbolised the chance to humiliate the party CLONEL LUC leadership has for years humiliated them. took that chance with open arms, thanked Tony Benn a thousand times over for giving it to them. Wherever he went applauded, when he entered a room applauded, when he rose to applauded, when he finished speaking he applauded, and he was applauded when he left It was a bonus for the constituency rank and file that Benn took the occasional side swipe at on the revolutionary left hounded them with some success these last few years. Said Benn at one meeting:
'All right. I'm not going to disrespect of the socialist sects. Socialist Worker, Socialist Challenge, Newsline, I read them all. I even read the writings of a certain Mr Posadas. an Argentinian gentleman. I read it because in the world of socialist thought you need different *But the analysis is different from action, and the framework of action is the British Labour • as broad as the where you can be a Catholic at one end and an atheist at the other. We are a very tolerant party. I don't want to chase anyone out of the Labour Party. I want to bring them in; bring in their knowledge, their analysis; their dedication.' Dishonest To portray the Labour Party rather than the revolutionary left as the party of 'action' is gross and dishonest, as Tony Benn suppose the revolutionary left did accept invitation to thrown in their lot with the Labour Party, what does Tony Benn offer, what is his strategy for change?
"And yet still this country is run by the same people who ran it when the Labour Party was set has it been denied to us; democratic change, what we were entitled expect and were organised to achieve, through the ballot box?
'For don't ever belittle parliamentary детостасу. instrument of change but it is an integral part of OT:
'And when we've won the argument in the party we will take it out to the country, and when we win the argument in the country we will get a government that will really do it, and then we will come up against the IMF and the EEC and will have to do it all over again with them.' •Such are examples of the limitations of Benn. His formula is almost simplistic. Get a leadership which is accountable, ensure a radical manifesto adopted, and then, via switched off by person Frank Allaun.
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