ELECTION COME, | IMGpapers 1968

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Nothing shows more clearly than this election that the policies of the Lab: our Party leadership are incapable of meeting the interests of the working class. The low Labour vote - the second lowest percentage of the vote since 1935- was not due to working class defeats. On the contrary the working class struggle was on the rise leading up to and during the clection campThe low vote was because Wilson could not inspire the potential working class Labour vote. The even more open right wing line Wilson will emhark on after the clection will disillusion the working class even more and lead not only to hy-election defeats for Labour, but also to workers becoming even more cynical about the Labour Party.

In this situation the responsibilities not merely of the rovolutionary left, but of all those prepared to fight against the policies of Wilson, is enormous A couple of years of open right wing Labour Government can lead to a big strengthening of the left-but it will pot automaticaily do so. If socialists can orpanise a united fight against the policies of the Wilson leadership then tens of thousands of workers can be won to However if the left cannot act in this way, if it is unable to work out the policies around which it can engage in anited action or if it continues to follow a narrow sectarian course, then the disillusionment with the Labour Party can rapidly lead to an entirely different type of outRacist, nationalist and reactionary policies will have a field day. Pow ell and the National Front will be: of the working class.

While we can expect resistance tions even of Labour MP's and the core of resistance will come Tram 1 he the winning to revolutionary po Wilson inside and outside the Labo that will be the decisive task of the The long term aim must be the inside the trade anions. But ar the quisites for such a tendency, the c tions of the working class of certai al pre-conditions, a revolutionary e within the workers movement, ext trade union tendency must contin claim" its existence as the 15 do w and the WRP do with the ATUA anisationally grotesquely sectarian But united action involving sect can he achievell on some of the nu ple. The Shrewsbury defence cam the building of a Troops Out nove Charter campaien and so on show achieved.