AWL conference 2004

Liaisons message to AWL conference 2004

Below is the message - belatedly translated - of Lettre de la Liaisons to the AWL conference 2004. Their comments on the French political situation - upheaval, promise and...danger - remain pertinent and the document is interesting overall. Please visit the Liaisons website and, if you speak French, subscribe to their excellent newsletter, that brings news and views from all parts of the left and trade union movement in France. VM.

Reply to Bruce on the June elections

In June we should say something like: keep out the BNP and the Tories. Vote socialist or Labour. Fight Blair - build the LRC.

1. If we had concluded, as the Socialist Party has, that the Labour Party is finally, totally, completely and irreversibly dead in working-class politics, then of course we would abstain where we could not stand independent working-class candidates. We would also call on the unions to disaffiliate, and dismiss the current moves for an LRC as a pointless dead end. We do not.

Amendments on the Labour Party

Amendments on the Labour Party to various conference documents, from Bruce R.

'CLASS, UNION AND PARTY'

Add new 3(a):

"There has been a considerable erosion in traditional working class support for Labour, particularly amongst young people. Symptoms include the increase in electoral abstention, particularly in inner-city areas, and the growth of the BNP."