A socialist group in PLP?
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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"PERHAPS we should try to set up a Socialist Group in the Parliamentary Labour Party", said Bennite MP Bob Cryer after Tribune MPs had helped Denis Healey into the deputy leadership.
And this week in Brighton, Reg Race MP, chairperson of the Rank and File Mobilising Committee, was also pushing the idea of a 'Bennite' group of MPs.
Unlike the Tribune group, this group could be linked to, and accountable to, an organised left wing in the Labour Party and the unions. Cryer's and Race's appeal is thus a big step forward - and should be coupled with plans to set up a new open, democratic, and activist movement of the rank and file Left.
As we go to press, Reg Race is due to speak at Thursday's Socialist Organiser Brighton fringe meeting on 'Organising the Left'. The meeting will discuss Socialist Organiser's appeal, two weeks ago, for Tony Benn and his associates to call a democratic labour movement conference to set up a new