paign of the Workers Revolutionary Party was its sectarianism.
It viewed the election simply as a publicity campaign for the WRP. based on the idiotic idea that it can by itself appear before even the most advanced sections of the working class as a credible alternative to the Labour Party. It therefore refused any united campaign with the rest of the revolutionary left The tallacy of this WRP Line is shown clearly in the votes their candidates re ceived. In Newham North Fast Vanessa Nepare pose are notes comparco to 760 last time. In Pontefract and Castlefard their vote stumped from 991 to 457. Last February's very good vote in Wallend of 1108 dropped to 435, Issues like Ireland, the fight against racism and fascism and the campaign for the Working Women's Charter were either totally absent from the WRP cam paign or received little more than a But it is on these matters that the working class is politically at its weak est. It is also on these issues that Labour opens the door for racist demag ogues like Powell By playing down or ignoring these issues, and by dismissing the independent strugeles of women, within the working class, Moreover, they weaken the struggle to convince the most oppressed groups of workers that their interests lie with the social No sevolutionary can take pleasure in the poor showing of the WRP. But that poor showing was due to the friture of the revolitionary left to wan a united cection campaign a proposal put to the WE and the International Socialist BLIC IT DELETE LOU ELECEOr Instead of having Joint candidates fighting on the most important isspes facing the wowking class and offering a pole of attraction to militant workers, the WRI went off on a soctarian binge the 1S simply abstained from it all, An opportunity was lost. Once again the British revolutionary felt demonstr aled its sectarianisan and clung to its naive belief that without united action of the revolutionary left, it can construct ats own model revolutionary patty. Unlortunately for them pelther the capitalist class nor the Labour burcaucrals intend waiting until the WR or the IS have grown big couch so it can be a fair fight'. Meanwhile the WRE, no matter how many hundreds it may recruit, contributes to wasting the wurkers who even now can be won to revolutionary political action.
Red Weekly 17 Derober 1974 Page 7