Devon Labour Briefing no. 19 (insert)

TURN BACK THE GREY TIDE!

The right wing of the labour movement has been getting away with murder: policies and principles have been slaughtered. Kinnock, Hattersley and a cabal of union bureaucrats have been setting the agenda and setting the pace towards a new

witch-hunt. New alignments have helped the ‘‘new realists’’. Urging on the process of ditching

and diluting Labour's policies have been: @ The new Tribune @ The new Livingstone ® The new New Socialist ® The new Marxism Today

All these elements are central to the new grey election campaign (never mind the politics, feel the breadth!).

But beneath the thin veneer of ‘‘new”’ politics lurks the same old reality: Kinnock’s gang are limbering up for a period of Wilson-style Labour government pledged to capitalist policies, and certain to attack the working class.

We can’t yet stop the careerist bandwagon which Kinnock is driving, or stop some former left wingers jumping aboard. But we don’t have to concede the initiative to the right wing.

We can begin to organise the hard left to fight back in defence of socialist policies, class struggle methods, and the demands of the oppressed.

That’s why we need the new, fortnightly paper to be launched in the autumn, which will expand and improve upon the present Labour Briefing.

The new Briefing will argue for the policies which the labour movement needs to fight back against Thatcher and combat Kinnock’s retreat.

Our aim is to stop the rot. Our allies / and audience are the most militant

- forces in the trade unions, the Labour Parties, women’s campaigns and

< struggles, black struggles, the Lesbian aa } and Gay movement and among young people — anyone committed to the fight for a socialist solution to the

~_ crisis.

‘+ The new paper will be tighter in focus, harder-hitting in its line, but broader in scope than the present Briefing. \t will still be democratically run, and offer a forum for debate as well as a basis for organising the left. It will be basic reading for activists, but understandable to workers on picket lines and first-time readers.

The campaign for the new paper was launched at a 200-strong conference in May. Now we need YOUR support to help raise the funds and assemble a network of sellers and supporters.

If you agree that it is time we fought back against the witch-hunt and the right wing

rampage, we urge you to:

@ Join our ‘500 Club’’ scheme: pay £1 per week towards the Launch Fund of £8,000 — and be entered for a weekly £25 Draw! (See standing order form

alongside)

@ Make a donation to the launch fund: send cheques (payable to Labour Briefing No. 2 account) to: Launch Fund, 162 Millfields Rd, London E5.

® Pledge a regular sale of the new paper in your workplace, Labour Party or neighbourhood. Order your copies of our Pilot Issue (out July 15th) from Millfields Rd.

®@ Tell your local comrades about it: organise a Launch Meeting, with a speaker from Briefing (write in, or tel. 01-533 2593).

® Subscribe to the paper — £12 per year.

@ Order copies of our Turn Back the Grey Tide leaflet to spread the word and promote the new Briefing from 39, Talia House, Manchester Rd, London E14 SHB. CONTACT US for any further details. TOGETHER WE can Turn the Tide!

Briefing 500 Club

Help us build the fortnightly Briefing Win £25 in a weekly prize draw!

Pledge us only £1 per week, £4 per month for the Fund to launch the new fortnightly Labour Briefing newspaper. Our aim is to enlist at least 500 supporters, to enable us to launch the new paper by Labour Party conference 1986, and to sustain its regular publication as the paper of the hard left in the labour movement.

As soon as we have 200 supporters signed up, we will begin a weekly draw for a £25 prize payout. When we reach 400 supporters we will double the prize money to two £25 lucky number prizes.

To enter the draw, simply complete the Bankers Order form and send it to Labour Briefing. As soon as we recieve it, your number will be entered for the first draw: we will forward the form to your bank. A Supporters’ Club card will be sent to you in acknowledgement, showing your lucky number.

This money is entirely separate from other Labour Briefing finance, and will all be earmarked for the launch fund target of £8,000 to set up the fortnightly paper.

Sign up now: and when you join the 500 Club why not order extra forms to take round your local Labour Parties, trade unions and other campaigns. Help us build the base for the fortnightly!

ING Bankers Order form for Labour Briefing 500 Club

Please complete every section of this form, and then return it to: Labour Briefing, c/o Jane Kelly, 26 Crofton Rd, London SE5.

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