Debate on the unions and Labour Party: Workers' Liberty 3/23

2. What the dispute is not about; and what it is about

What the dispute is not about: 1. AWL attempting to do entry work in the existing or soon-likely Labour Party. Nobody proposes that or thinks it makes sense. The most that is on the agenda in this field is sending a scout here and there into the Labour Party. 2. AWL committing to the view that the Labour Party will certainly revive after the coming general election. Nobody says that - only that a revival is possible, or probable, and that that has to be important in our calculations now. 3. AWL committing to the view that if the Labour Party does revive, it will return to its old pre-Blair...

1. How the new facts change the prospects

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" John Maynard Keynes "You say that in all this time you have not departed by an iota from the platform of 1925, which I had called an excellent document in many respects. But a platform is not created so as to 'not depart from it,' but rather to apply and develop it. The platform of 1925 was a good document for the year 1925. In the five years that have elapsed, great events have taken place". Leon Trotsky (remonstrating, in 1930, with Italian communist-oppositionists). "The test of the seriousness, the maturity, the honesty and...

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