years.
base workers who kept constitutencies"
MICHAEL FOOT, 30 April 1972.
Before the memory fades compictely, 1e1 13 how: Michael FOot postured. How he denounced the late leader of the Labout Party, Hugh Gaitskell, as a "counter-revolutionary"
How he marched with the Campaign Against Nuclear rainst the Amcrican war FILTERIT Tribune group, and was once expelled Trom the Parliamentary Labour Party being too left-WinE.
Foot's favourite theme throughout his political life has been the need for the Labour leadership to pay heed to its "base DISASTER He wed to stress that defying the wishes of the party rank and file led inevitably to political disaster and defeat.
Such is the past of Michacl Today it is a history which is Inding. is the condition for success in all other manoeuvres and forays. And who will contest the platitude?
*The strange answer is that for months past, even of, the most eminent well-wishers of the Labour Party have recommended 'But I repeat: this was the strategy of defeat in 1970.
Is the trade ugion interlocked with the dedicated phalanx of party democracy alive in same spood as the lost jobs of steelworkers in Foots Ehow Vale constituctica But last Monday at Labour Party conference when Foot wound up on behalf of Callachan in the debate on the 5 per oent limit, it was difficult to feel much anger.
in SICK the It is little more than a sick reminder of tinies long past that for as late as March 1972 Foot considered: The Jobless toral DE CATARAL BEER LOCOUT SOSE office was already intolerable':
OT COUrSe: charges selling-out past principles, once office is attained, are not restricted la Michacl Foot. But Foot has responsibilty Es in relation to the present state of the Labour Party.
He 15 now one of the misin leaders of a Labour governmcar wmca was so-cancany *failed to prolect its base c supposed movement the the of of Somersaulins special SpeRT LILEE BE billing WalL rains. OvEr to Ford workers once the the paper lies.
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especially the National the horizon, chance of will feel no the doorstep, WAR That what Faot, per CCHI There's clearly an audience Ford plant in Dagenham Inst Olliam. Friday, despite the torrentia SD copies were sold of Socialist Challenge groups are vital. For weekend's meeting of North West Soci- helping alist Challenge proup organi sers showed that many of our funds. Are you?
rank and file members of the the factory floar. have Foor and his colleagues in gosernment over the past four years. Too patient But now, with the election on the self-evident truth can no longer he hidden.
Labour hasn't a cal in hell's winning the next clection while it pursues the per селе norm. falls to tackl unemployment, and rejeers the advice of Lahour activists in International Monetary Fund.
The average Labour activist enthusiasm for arguing Heath-type policies on The traditional Labour vole. will foct Lictle compulsion to vole for a party that sages war on free collective bargaining.
is why -pontrary lo Healey and TURE ruling class press argued the decision of the Labour Parry conference to throw out the i destroy Labour's election chances.
If that vote is followed up by the Labour Pany waging the Demonstration, 7October BARNSLEY, Rock Street, 12.30 Called by the United Troops Our Movement, Bring the war home to Mason's constituency!
| oldest groups have floundered springings no places ale although new Cones So the increased income we rerelying on. trom improved sales will also be put towards servicine lhese groups: provi ding more promotion material:
Dratise Soakers and MR tours: bolding regular regional mcclug of group 0108503539 COUT local fund-raising, and soon Anon On that last note, Manches ter supporters are plamnine a Guy Fawkes bonlite to raise Plus week, wove had one more member of the Fourth Anon CHEE year of his memhership with a | GHAND TOTAL campaign against that its now pidged of and it those whe still carmider themselves left Labourites put themselves at the lead of that campaign, an election victory is PROBLEM The ouly problem is that i mas diase all coine 100 late Toi example, the Tribenites launched such a campaien ar the start of Phase socialist stralery;
government, then today the Labour party would he in a much healthier state.
Such a campaign would have inevitably overthrown the policies of Callaghan. Healey The Labour left has argued Cha. It las bad difficulties because the government was a minority onc Well, who is the minoriry in the labour movement? Cal laghan, Heales, and Fool — oi the 57,000 Ford workers, and the four million voles at the | Labour Party conference!
Goodbye, Michael Foot. We can't say it's been a picasure knowing you. But it's certainly been an experience. donation of E15. Thanks to Tony Southall.
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an exactly opposite strategy, and occasionally the Labour leadership has seemed tempted to adopt it...