Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line

Workers Newsletter Group/Coventry Workers Association

The Labour Party: Vehicle for Socialism?


First Published: n.d. [1981?].
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Sam Richards and Paul Saba
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CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

1. THE LABOUR PARTY: ITS ORIGINS AND HISTORY

(i) Societies and Trade Unions
(ii) The Parliamentary Elite and Reformism
(iii) The Left Voice
(iv) State Monopoly Capitalism and the New Imperialism
(v) The Absence of Ideology
(vi) Great Britain Ltd
(vii) The Shift to the Right

2. CURRENT ISSUES

(i) The Challenge From The Left and Its Limitations
(ii) The Economic Crisis
(iii) A People’s Capitalism?
(iv) The Alternative Economic Strategy

3. SUMMARY

4. THE FUTURE – MOBILISING THE WORKING CLASS

(i) Trade Councils and The Labour Movement
(ii) A Party of the Working Class