UK Far Left Blows Its Chance in London

[Johannes Schneider]

Chris Burford wrote:
> Yes quite right to deride the sectarian dogmatic left. They do
considerable
> damage in preventing a rational application of a marxist approach.
>
> But it is early years yet in learning how this system works.
>
> I would predict that a radical left candidate capable of crossing the 5%
> hurdle in four years time, will need to combine a radical green as well as
> a socialist stance.
>
> But the theory behind this practice must also be seriously discussed. I
> hope the organisation will be marxist-influenced.

Chris,

your approach sounds good, but at least it failed practically in Germany.
Surely the early Green party in Germany could be called
'marxist-influenced'. Today all left-wingers have left the party, only the
careerist around Trittin remained.

Whreas in France the LCR-LO alliance scored some success in at the polls. As
I understand it from the distance the LCR-LO success forced the SWP into
acceptance of the LSA.

But at the end of the day success at the polls is not an end in itself, but
more or less a measure for the maturity of the working class. So I think the
3 percent or so are just the optimal result a left-wing alternative could
have got in Britain today. Whereas the success of the LCR-LO alliance is
rooted in the French general strike.

Johannes