breathtaking as warriors parading as the injured party. In this case "party is the SWP and the warriors" are Danny Phillips and Linda Quinn of its Lambeth branch (Socialist Challenge, 23rd March)
For people who profess "concern" about avoiding 'splitting the forces of the left in clectoral way of showing it selected their Flame candidate, Tony Bogues, forthooming by-clection in Lambeth Central behind closed doors. He is acoountable to no-one except the loca -Who seem so keen for the Left te Party leadership. Now, dopt a united electoral front, that's i really belpful way to achieve it Ah, comrades Philips and Quinn we approached the refore we announced our sublicly: but they, the ruggers, had the nerve to tell us they been discussing candidate. And after we d supported them in their campaign in the GLC elections last year!
If 1 scem a little cynical, perhaps not to insult our intelligence, does TEMOVE manocuvrings by the SWP or the iNCiane The ralleE arc ds their manoeuvrings as the SWP are clumsy in theirs).
The question thar bas to be asked, -ar answered, is: Why sores of committed and independen HELC initiative of Lambeth Socialist Unity eo out on the knocker' and work foi a campaign where che main aim is to recruit for the SWP7 Maybe the SWP really do want a united campaign. TE so, they should have been prepared to submit their candidate to open selection. Their astonishment at the democracy" of SU E understandable. After all, the SWP destroyed its own brand of unique democracy back in 1975 when "permanent factions'. So obviously these contrades find such practices as free discussion unfamiliar territory.
1 wouldn't sueeest that SU has got the process dead right cither, but by rejecting any attempt to improve the structure of SU through helpful and fraternal involvement be of immense benefit to the whole of the left — the SWP reveal themselves and their arguments unscrious.
So we now face an important by-election with two far-left candidares, whose action programme on the arely distinguishable. dates will lose polential support as a result.
While the SWP can claim a larger industrial base than SU and, as a ready-made member La sizeable periphery, already laid some of the ground-work for the election, I doubt whether the SWP will be as successful as it has evidently convinced itsel fit will be For SU has the bonus of openess anc wiftingnessto work with militants who are unlikely recruits to one or other faction in the alliance. It also means being able to talk to Brixton working class about superiority of genuine many the League)
sport interventions for the pun!)
to consider.
MOTHE CASS DAme.
DECISIOn angrateful working class backgrounds alternative players of world calibre.
working class consciousness.
skilful in around virtuosity should ibr atracied to the boring society.
big business. presents an instan ment. 3U0 regional and Stop if we work hard enough.
as completely their political channels.
Where such aggression Both candiwindows and police repression. organisation conclude their article in have culture.
the domination. the socialist imislom Ad. Hep sell Socialis enge between 11.30am and 1pm at Moss Side shopping centre infermation tom 0e1.25 nd that means a lot to worke who've been screwed for too long hy profit-hungry bosses, unclected union officials and, if they've been really unlucky, by the self-sustaining cliques revolutionary leit However, ALAN SOSKIN (London Workers productive role, away from the real and societyobjectives.
MICK GOSLING's review of the providing Liverpool v. Notts Forest League Cup Final (23rd March) was a cop-out to the same. say the least (hoping you will pardon Gosling poses the question What would it be like under socialium?" OUTSUL. certainly an interesting problem and one which it is important for marxists Soccer is probably the only truc understand it - and learn fromit.
Marxists should not be apposed t the development of a specific cultur by and for the working class. On the contrary, we should encourage we must recognise that football represents a diversion of strugale for control of the productive reproductive forces in our The task for marxists should surely are overdetermined. Whereas it har always been possible to conceive of a it exploited (as with hunter-gatherers) it is not possible to conceive af one in which no women are explaited which is not also classless.
Certainly capitalisan exploits women for their free domestic labour and as a mobile, Inhour farce which can be moved in and out of productive industry as the and TicIsET society in which women are politics, those traps expendable and unskilled system" as they describe the union bureaucrats, that underiny the IMG"
participate in electoral thought however, 'Socialist Unity" is launched with little indication of how to avoid For the IMG to produce The Fight for a Soclalist Alternative in its Battle of Ideas series is misleading: PATRICK HUGHES (Landes)
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