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Socialist Resistance no5 | page 10-11

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an open question as to whether or not the small socialist current that remains in the party at Westminster will make the necessary break with Labour" .... ... not the small socialist current that remains in the party at Westminster and in the courttry, will make the necessary break with Labour or continue to insist on its line of reclaiming the party'.

That by the way is a forlorn hope.

The radicalisation which is taking place now around the anti-war movement and in

the unions is outside of the confines of the Labour Party, it is not being structured by

the Party. Neither is it being structured by the TUC. There is no national lead whatsoever on any of the key questions facing the

labour movement today.

This is the problem that those wishing to re-found the socialist alternative are facing at the moment.

ALAN. Do you think that the huge

radicalisation which is taking place

around the anti-war movement and

the new generation which is coring

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Where next for the left? soclalst resistance April 2003 | |

"We are looking to broaden out who we support in elections, because Labour clearly no longer represents us" ••