NO NO 1 MWAR — Socialist Resistance newspaper

NO NO 1 MWAR

Socialist Resistance no2 | page 21

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lent 12.7% won in the Hackney mayoral

However, to build the Socialist Alliance into a credible political alternative to New Labour, we need to link the electoral work with building support in the trade unions and communities. Southwark SA, for example, has been leading the fight to stop the sell-off of council houses on the Tabard Garden estate - and have won. This sort of work will bare fruits for the Socialist Alliance. Likewise, with the solidarity work with the firefighters. The Socialist Alliance must intervene in the wider campaigns, such as against the war on Iraq, and build for and participate in mobilisations across Europe, such next years ESF in Paris

A strong, campaigning Socialist Alliance can be a crucial step towards a new party of the working class. Can we afford to fail to rise to the challenge? ...