In this issue
- Editorial
- The Labour Government and the Crisis
- Standing Left Candidates
- TRICO: A Victory to Build On
- Scots Nationalism
- The Labour Movement Delegation to Ireland
- China After Mao: Behind the Bureaucrats’ Dogfight
- The Provisionals and the Peace Movement: The Strengths and Limits of Republicanism
- Portugal: One Year Since the 25 November Events
- Southern Africa: Imperialism in Search of New Friends
- Failure of a Fusion: The Split in the I-CL
Editorial
The publication of Workers’ Power is re-continued as a direct result of the failed fusion of the I-CL. However, as we made clear in issues 1 and 2 we remain committed to joint work on a principled basis and to sharp, open political debate with other tendencies on the left. Only honest political argument can provide the basis for meaningful revolutionary re-groupment.
The magazine will focus on the key issues posed to the left by the class struggle, nationally and internationally. Arguments with other tendencies will be on the basis of their way forward for the class, their perspective for building a revolutionary leadership. We welcome debate and argument from other groupings in reply.
Because of the split in the I-CL, because of our decision to resume publishing Workers’ Power, we have given a considerable portion of this issue to explaining the split — to putting the record straight once and for all.
Workers’ Power No. 3 includes important articles on central issues of the class struggle. We analyse the prospects and strategy of the Labour government and within that context, look at the positions adopted by the left on standing candidates in elections and the question of Scots nationalism. In this issue we draw out the lessons of the Trico dispute, in the next we will produce a statement on our perspective for the Working Women’s Charter.
We see the record of the left on the question of support for the struggle in Ireland as a deplorable history of neglect and avoidance of the key issues. In this issue we print an analysis of the present state of the struggle in the North and also our criticisms of, and perspectives for, the September Labour Movement Delegation to Ireland. Such coverage will always be central to our magazine.
Our articles on China, Portugal and South Africa subject prevalent myths on the left to scrutiny. They draw out the lessons that revolutionaries must learn from these on-going struggles.
Our next issue, appearing in February, will carry an in-depth analysis of the West European Communist Parties, articles on the Spanish situation, the labour movement in Scotland and Topics of Struggle, an up-to-date commentary on national and international labour movement events.