THE NEWLY-FORMED stitute has just launched its 'Charter For Jobs, with much ballyhoo but little chance of getting off the ground. This is hardly surprising. Its fuel is a strictly non-volatile mixture of watered down Keynesianism and wishful thinking.
The notion that a cut in employers' national insurance contributions, spending will overcome the crisis of the British economy is farcical. The proposal to employ the unempioved on Props for all nes. ects is another cheap labour scheme - a The scheme accurately reflects the political composition of its sponsors: Tory wets, the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Labour right wingers With a few trade union leaders and some liberal capitalists thrown in, it is the Communist Party's dream of the grand anti-Thatcher Alliance come true.
As a campaign against unemployment it is a damp squib. however. It is a step towards preparing a coalitionist alternative to Thatcher.
The miners' strike has done serious damage to the Tories' plans for this term of office. It has halted them in their tracks for 12 months. They are approaching mid-term in this period of of fice, and are nowhere near solving the basic problems of British capitalism.
The sections of the bourgeoisie who are backing this project are preparing for the possibility that the Tories will not win a third general election. A Labour government, even with Ramsay Mckinnock at alternative. A Labour government in coalition with the Alliance, or trapped in some form of Lib-Lab pact is acceptable.
Such a government could be relied on to pursue kind policies Callaghan followed. demoralising blows at the working class, prepare the way for an even more virulent form of Thatcherism.
The politicians involved in the campaign are just the coalition of forces to carry out such a task: Hattersley, Healey, from the Labour Party; Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams from the SDP. cabinet revived.
Basnett and Tuffin also involved it is like the 7479 all over again.
Roy Hattersley was not at the launch of the Charter for Jobs. He was at the AUEW national committee offering the trade alliance with the Labour Party. course, called a social contract. This time it is a 'social compact'. In exchange for wage restraint, a Labour government will provide jobs welfare benefits.
These developments are designed to consolidate the rightward move in the Labour Party. nock is getting together a project that will win the approval of the ruling class in time for the next election, or create the basis for a possible coalition should that be necessary.
The Labour left must start rocking the boat as vigorously as comprehensive alternative.
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