"The RMT, for example, has dumped all our previous group of MPs, and have a new group who support the policies of the RMT" can't jump straight from a trade union base
The new radicalising forces won't automatically join a political party. The new young people for example won't go straight to a political party because they see political OFFICIAL in a situation far more advanced than when the SLP emerged. None of this debate on the political fund, for example, existed at that time when Scargill called for the SLP. So we are in a much more fertile situation than was the case then. PAT: Yes. There are many more radicalising forces, and not only against the war. It would not have happened without the World Social Forum, the European Social Forum, and the whole anti-globalisation movement - which has taken up new ways of doing politics and projecting politics on
In fact it is very interesting because they are not writing detailed manifestos they are posing big broad issues which are in many ways the building blocks of the movement. In other words we. are talking about refounding working class political representation. This therefore dictates a certain approach which cannot be pushed too fast
Specifically I believe it's just plain wrong to propose for example that the next step for socialists in the European Social Forum is to wage a big fight to clear out the social movement seeking to "clarify" it.
Their leader Bertinotti says the line of the socialists should not be to try and hegemonise the movement rather they should ensure that the movement hegemonises society - that is, to create the conditions for the building of equality and to effectively
The problem is I don't know whether or not the SA is up to doing something creative about this massive new movement when it is so overwhelmingly dominated by the SWP. Do the SWP want to open up the SA to this opportunity as opposed to recruiting numerically dominant in the Alliance, and it is true that some people are The only way around this situation, either as a part of the Alliance or as a part of a new initiative of which the