Socialist Challenge1979Socialist Challenge No. 120, 1 November 1979From Tony Cliff to Tony Benn?
Socialist Challenge No. 120, 1 November 1979 · p. 13 of the scan · 150 words
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page 13 of the scan
unity was non- Leninist take - making a serious breakthrough since the war for a new party or movement to the left of the Labour Party - the late '60s and '70s modest-sized sect (the SWP) and a couple of organisations of small or tiny size but some seriousness (IMG, BF).
The latter have now proved their inability to Many serious steps towards irrelevance of the organised far highlighted by the advance of a new left in the more than one political movement. unity, The don't left is organisations The left's presence seeras raore and more to boil down to that of a fragmented mass of both sects and socio-politico-cultural movements, existing alongside and interpene trating with — because unable to challenge — organisations the know the of the left should do, individuals (like myself deeply dissatisfied with each of them as they are, there is no longer