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From Socialist Review, No. 178, September 1994.
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Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
The article on the Labour left (June SR) – makes the same mistake as you describe the Labour left making.
‘It is obvious’, you say, ‘where the Labour left’s priorities lie: in parliament’. Yet you deduce this solely on the basis of left MPs, and ignore the activist rank and file.
Three hundred and fifty of the latter met recently at the Socialist Campaign Group Network conference, and called for a left candidate in the leadership election as well as commitments to scrap VAT on fuel, increase higher rate income tax, extend trade union rights, close Campsfield and to repeal the Asylum Act, Criminal Justice Bill and Child Support Act.
Of course the Labour left is weaker than it was. But that’s no reason for you to rubbish us at a time when all the left should be making common cause against Major, Blair and all the other Tories.
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