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Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-29Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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COVENTRY was a monument to the post-war capitalist boom, apparently the most affluent city in Britain. Today it stands devastated by factory closure after factory closure. Well over 15% of the workforce is unemployed, more than the average in either England or Scotland.
In 1979, a new sound burst out from Coventry -two-tone - and for a brief few months it caught the fancy and imagination of milions of young people. Pork pie hats, Harringtons, and anything with blackand-white checks, blossoomed.
A year and a half later, and with another million and a half out of work, the THE RECENT article 'Brighton - a Balancr Sheet' , serves as a usefu framework within whicl local Socialist Organise groups can plan their Part: work after Conference. I particular, the question o which way Benn will jum] - back in again to compet with the Kinnocks on thei own ground, or continue t mobilise the rank and fil - is central.
It seems likely that b will take the latter course, but it is up to us to pus him that way and hold hir to it. That is why you demand for Benn to ca for a conference to set up Broad Left in the Labor Party needs following u and expanding in the pagt of Socialist Organiser.
We in Bristol are curren ly working on how best 1 fight for these ideas in or Party and union branche but we would feel strengtl ened as part of an ongoir campaign in the pages. the paper.
IAN HOLLINGWORT
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Socialist Organiser no October 29, 1981 Socialist Organiser no.59 October 29, 1981 Page 12
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