Committee, or taking too active a part in the anti-EEC campaign. Bean, Foot and company have mustered their reply.
tide in our favour and wash away the deepening capitalist crisis.
This ignores the existence of an oil glut at the moment. The big companies have told their ships to-move more slowly across the oceans and the Middle East producers have pegied their prices. A significant tall in world prices would put North Sea oil back in the ocean bed and destroy the plans of the Labour leit at a stroke.
Furthermore, the lefts ignore the fact that British entry into the Com mon Market was not dictated for the capitalist class by the effect on the price of their after dinner cheese of the Common Agricultural Policy. THE ANTI-COMMON MARKET MINISTERS of the Labour left have opened their campaign around the EEC referendum not with a bang but a whimper. In face of Wilson's not-so-veiled threats to sack Ministers pushing the anti-Market position on the Labour Party National Executive The 'statement by dissenting ministers' is just the old rag-bag of utoplan economics and nationalist politics. Unable to propose a socialist alternative to the anarchy of capitalism on both a British and European scale, the "left" is left waiting fot the gushing of North Sea oil to turn the lot about the allegedly superior powers of parliament as an elected body if any decisions be took as a result of the passing of his toothless Industry Bill really threatened their power? The problem for socialists is how to break the power of the capitalist class, of wilich Parliament is a part, not tell workers that they are better off enslaved to the mother of Parliaments' as opposed to some foreien body.
if adopted, would lead to continued subservience to the imperiulist world economy as much as conMarket. And the basis of the left's opposition to the Common Market leads towards an equal subservience of the lubour movement to British ENOCH RIGH The policies of the Labour lett tinued membership of the Common STATEMENT capitalism and its institutions.
At Sunday's press conference Mr. Benn stated that if Britain stayed in the Market he would be unable to intervene in industry to the exteut necessary to re-equip it will have to be cleared by the Commission in Brussels. Does Benn seriously believe that the capitalist class in Britain would bother one This brings us to the most serious dried. cuticism of the type of anti-Market campaign the Labour left is waging. The economics may be a joke, but the politics are a positive danger to the working class. The detence of an apparently classless democracy, and carlier extolling of the virtues of'national sovereignly all appeal to the most backward instincts which bind British workers to their own ruling class. The days of such an "independent Britain' were the product of Britain's imperial heyday. of which it has been truly said that Britain had an Empire on which the sun never set and the blood never
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