Ruling class break-up, working class gears up

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and power to back up that refusal.

fragmentation of the ruling class political bloc As the 10 October election results show, those same tensions still operate and none of the problems for the ruling class have been solved.

The Tory Party got its lowest per centage vote this century. The Liberal vote also went down, despite running more candidates. However the increase in the Scottish Nationalist vote helped to make up for the votes lost by the other capitalist parThis disintegration of the capitalint political bloc should have created the most favourable possible condibons for the Labour Pairty. Victory appeared to have been handed to Them on a plate.

But if the ruling class is in crisis the Labour Party is at an impasse. Labour's crisis is so severe that it drastically affects its electoral stratMEY. After being put out of government in 1970 the Labour Party beLAST FEBRUARY THE WORKING CLASS NOT ONLY REFUSED TO accept the burden of the economic crisis, but it had the organisational strength This led both to the clectoral defeat of the Tory Government and to the until it can find a new political formula which enables it to take on the working class.

The only candidate offering such a solution is Enoch Powell with his emphasis on racism and the building of a strong state. But right now Powell's policies are fraught with economic and political dangers for large sections of the ruling class, The ruling class as a whole will not turn rapidly to Powell, but theie is little douht groups of the ruling class will become more and more sympathetic to his ideas.

Until a Powellite option is adopted however-and that is still some years off -we can expect even more rapid shifts, turnovers in personnel and disputes inside the ruling class political parties than have gone on before October, The Labour Party will not be immune from this crisis. In fact the tensions inside the Labour Party will stretch to near breaking point, The scale of the present economic crisis demands not only a fierce attack on the working class but also the direct handout of absolutely colossal subsidies to the capitalists. This Wilson government will undoubtedly he the most reactionary Labour government since that of 1929-1931 wign us Fords showed. revolutionary politics.

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