Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 07:55:03 GMT
From: Adam Rose <adam-AT-pmel.com>
Subject: Re: Socialist Labour Party





>     Carlos Replies:
>     How do you know "a priori" that it will be a reformist party? Why
>     to give up on the potential components of such a process? Is it
>     possible that i could become a centrist party (not reformist, not
>     revolutionary)? or even a revolutionary force if people like the
>     SWP and Militant get together and participate in it?
> 
>     Since the SWP didn't predict the idea of the SLP and Scargill's
>     move, how can they predict, with a fatalistic assertion, that it
>     will be reformist or won't be?
> 

I can only judge from what Scargill wrote in the Guardian.
He wants the SLP to contest every seat in the coming election
( ulikely practically and a mistake politically , IMO ) ,
and he wants to win the affiliations of trade unions, like
the current Labour Party did.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK










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