social services tion, and foreign policy.
The resolutions for the Labour Party Conference dramatise the politically traumatic conflict that is spreading like a bush fire throughout the Labour Party.
The rank and file are incensed at the way the Wilson leadership is running the Government. There is a plethora of resolutions calling for "socialist measures".
One Labour Party after another has gone on record insisting that the crisis is not the responsibility of the working class'.
Wilson clique
But with few exceptions the resolutions restrict themselves to pleas for the leadership to mend their ways, or are simply aimed at exposing the Wilson cique. Kesoluton zo trom brighton Kemptown, for example, 'calls on the Government to take immediate steps to connormaton oy a planned socialist control of the economy."
And Gateshead West CLP demand:
*the Labour Government and the National Executive Committee must launch port and General Workers Union to West Ham Trades Council. What do you see as the significance of your decision to remove Prentice? I think the main thing is that it is a sign that a local Labour Partv is not prepared to put up with a Member of Parliament who has been effectively elected by that Labour Party but then disagrees continvousy ww tem, and acts acainst what they see as the interests of socialism.
Do you see this in terms of a more general fight against the policies of the Government eg. the f6 limit and against the right wing - or do you see it purely as a local constitency issue?
I can't see how you can divorce the three unings. What nappens at the local leve is obviously part of what happens nationally, and in taking this decision we have been strengthened in our resolve by the views of people outside the Labour Party locally - trade unions, etc. - - and also by what the Government is doing throughout the country. ano the way in waich peonie throughout the country are reacting to That Will you be campaigning in the whole of your constituency against Wilson's policies - in the unions and wider labour movement as well as the Labour Party?
It's certainly very useful for us in the Labour Party to have the support of the broad labour movement. can t speak for others in the Party, but certainly where the opportunity arises I am speaking to omer geome in me labour move. ment - particularly trade unionists - encouraging them to support us and explainThis week we take a first look at the agenda for tae Labour Party Conference. In subsequent issues wę will write in some detail on the resolutions dealing with the economy, unemployment, the • particularly the National Health Service - aboran all-out campaign to mobilise the Labour movement to enable them to carry our tne socianst measures necessary to solve the economic crisis and implement systematic lasting reforms.
An exccuentsentiment. the road to hell was paved with good sentiments. There is no chance whatsoever of Wilson and his colleagues being persuaded that socialist measures are needed. They are firmly, and irrevocably committed to squeezing the guts out of the working class in order to save capitalism.
Crosby CLP is the only Labour Party to grasp this political bull by the horns.
They say: "This Conference views with alarm the increasing betrayal of socialist principals by senior members of the Government, including the Prime Minister...
They go on to demand 'that those members of the Government who cannot support the policies of the Labour Party Manifesto resign forthwith.
Here is the key to the struggle for socialist policies. It is not just a matter of high-sounding declarations. it simply a question of defending some and control the party. right-wing leaders. All of them fail to cone to cups wur now vou actually But then Handing the nigat-wing changes its ways In general they have stayed in the 'safe ground of 'British' policies.
ground of Irish politics that the future of the British working class is beans planned. it was on reiana mar the first coalitionist policies between Tories and Labour arose by the "lefts". And it is in Ireland that the techniques of repression that will be used against British workers struggle in the future are being developed.
ENOLIS "left ignores Ireland at its own peril. Labour Party once had but lost on the way to power. The Labour Party cannot serve the needs of the working class whilst it stays under the influence of the pro-capitalist politicians who now run The Crosby CLP are right. No change can be made witnout getting na or tnat leadership. The weakness of all the other resolutions from the CLP left is that they concentate exclusiver or exnoragon and demanding the impossible from the THE 'BENN LETTER' Tony Benn's weekend letter to his Bristol constituency Labour Party reveals the deep divisions that are opening up inside the Labour Party His denunciation of growing unemployment, and his insistence that 'we must use the crisis we have inherited as the occasion for fundamen tal change, not the excuse for postponing it', flies in the face of the main strategy and policies of the Wilson Government.
Benn's letter is clearly intended to rally the forces of the left at the Labour Party Conference, due to start in Blackpool on 29 September. His re-emergence from the shadows of discreet silence, and his entry into the main political debates that are raging inside the Labour Party and the trade unions, means a hotting up of the war between the pro-capitalist Wilson forces and the Labour and trade union left. insistent urgings that 'to cure the slump Britain will need nothing less than the major programme of social and industrial reform already set out by Labour' will fall on deaf and unresponsive ears in the leadership Benn's
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