Nationalisation and welfarist socialism were not anti-racist, but racist. Identification with the British state was central to the chauvinism that influenced British Labour. At hospitals and benefit offices the first question is always, where's your passport? The National Coal Board - with the connivance of the National Union of Miners - kept immigrant labour out of the mines.
>And
>what has LM provided instead?
Rather more than the Rakesh Bhandari party.
> You know the LM positions: learn how to fly a plane--just do it!
I'm sorry, I missed that article.
> What LM (that minority of
>the minority) figured is that to survive in the high times of bourgeois
>individualism, the left had to break with socialism, solidarity and the
>oppressed, right?
When 'socialism' meant immigration controls, military occupation of northern Ireland, anti-gay legislation the yes, you're right LM did break with socialism. And when 'solidarity' meant loyalty to the British state, 'last in first out', and import controls then yes LM wanted no part with such solidarity. As for the oppressed, you are mistaken if you ever thought that British Labour had any identification with the oppressed. LM by contrast has consistently opposed British imperialism and repression at home. -- Jim heartfield