Left MPs prepare fo battle

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THREE weeks have passed since the Tories won the General election. In those three weeks the new breed of stockbrokers and city merchants have very firmly established themselves as the government of the merchant banks with the obsessive morals of the small town hypocrite.

Privatisation of much of the public sector; the continued destruction of the health service; and the end of democratic local government, are the key themes. 4..

Internationally the Thatcherite Turies now propose to continue their colonial victors' cult 'defence' of Hung Kong and Gibraltar, and spend millions on the new airport in the Falklands, with the very obvious South African connection.

The other main planks of the Tory are their "mora), brogramme • proposals, with Thatcher's obsession with pushing social affairs back a hundred years. There is likely to be an enormous attack on single parent families and reversal of women's rights.

Hanging is being brought forward as a burning issue; the Sun has done a poll of MPs and decided that this is the major issue that the nation faces and that the rope (or electric chair?) must be brought in.

But what is Labour doing? The Parliamentary Labour Party is about to discuss the election. What it should be discussing is the treacherous behaviour of Callaghan during the election and the desperate need for the party to go out and explain and fight for socialist fundamentals.

The best lesson that anyone can have is struggle; the job of the Party, and Labour MPs in particular, must face up to, is a coordinated campaign to defend the metropolitan authorities and the GLC, the Health Service, and jobs threatened by privatisation such as in British Telecom.

The Campaign Group, now of nearly 30 members, is determined to lead the battle and fight with the Left in the unions to achieve the unity of the industrial and parliamentary wings which was not achieved in the four years since 1979, leading to our defeat.