Either-or: Labour's muddle-along option closes down
An article from Workers' Action (a forerunner of Solidarity: no.153, 22 September 1979) on the prospects, as we saw them, from the big upheavals then underway in the Labour Party. The outcome will probably determine the character of the Labour Party for decades. Either the left will go on from a victory on democracy at Brighton [Labour Party conference, 1979] to consolidate the Labour Party as a genuinely socialist party seeking to overthrow capitalism on the basis of the class struggle of the working class, and build up a mass membership around such policies. Or the left will be purged and...