WOMEN'S Labour FIGHTBACK e Movement FICHIBACK. The nightmare arrives,
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-01-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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towards the active involvement of people in public life, regardless of whether it is specifically socialist. Failing to understand this, the Left has been trapped in its sectarian ghetto, not influencing anybody.
Who is the 'Left' whom Kitching criticises? Sometimes he refers to the Labour Party as a whole, sometimes to its mainstream left, and sometimes to 'Leninist' organisations.
Some of Kitching's criticisms are just against some sections of The crisis facing the Left is not that it isn't gradualist enough: it is that it hasn't worked out the answers as to how to reverse the retreat now, or at least in the relatively short term.
Consequently the problem which Kitching views as primary - the isolation of the Left -is only a problem because the working class as a class, internationally, does face the prospect of a serious defeat. Otherwise we coutd simply rely on the isolation being overcome by the m 10b Landseer Road, London N19.
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