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Should Trade Unionists Support The Labour Party

Debate between Bill Martin of The Socialist Party of GB and John Gray (Labour Party activist and blogger)

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Thursday, 17 November 2011

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Labour Leaders and Their Prey At the Portsmouth Conference

The Riddle Answered

“Why does Russell Smart ?" asks our contributor, WILFRED, in the February issue of this journal. We may answer "because he is not smart enough to obtain a place with the "smart set" who are so successfully running the rank and file of the Labour Party into the Morass of Liberalism. And at no period of their career have they been so successful as at the last conference of their Party, held at Portsmouth.

Labour Party 'Reconstruction' - The Old Coat Turned

The new constitution of the Labour Party does not make that party any more of a working-class party in the real sense than it has been heretofore. As has frequently been pointed out in these columns, its policy is, for the following reasons, opposed to the best interests of the working class, and calculated to hinder their emancipation.

(1) The Labour Party is not a Socialist party, and consequently is not concerned with the abolition of capitalism and wage-slavery.

(2) The time and energy of the Labour Party are spent in advocating and pleading for reforms, which cannot materially improve conditions for the working class, but which confuse the minds of the workers, leading them to expect benefits they never obtain, thus causing disappointment, disgust, and apathy.

Voice From the Back

Another Business Opportunity
A new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on the shores of Tripoli. "Western security, construction and infrastructure companies that see profit-making opportunities receding in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned their sights on Libya .... Entrepreneurs are abuzz about the business potential of a country with huge needs and the oil to pay for them... A week before Colonel Qaddafi's death on October 20, a delegation from 80 French companies arrived in Tripoli to meet officials of the Transitional National Council, the interim government. Last week, the new British defence minister, Philip Hammond, urged British companies to ‘pack their suitcases’ and head to Tripoli" (New York Times, 28 October). It is always good to see the fall of a dictator, but obviously the capitalist class are more interested in profit than democracy.

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