Left Unity - The Impossible Dream

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Date: Tuesday, 17th September at 8.00pm

Venue: Committee Room, Chiswick Town Hall, Heathfield Terrace, London W4 4JN

Directions: About 7 minutes walk from Chiswick Park tube on the District line


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A talk by Adam Buick

Earlier this year radical film-maker Ken Loach issued a call for all those "left of Labour" to unite in a single organisation. The new party he called for is due to be founded at the end of November. But it won't make a breakthrough any more than Arthur Scargill's SLP or George Galloway's Respect have been able to and for the same reason -- the squabbling Trotskyist sects will create disunity as they rival each other to try to take it over.

All welcome

Audience participation invited

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/left-unity-impossible-dream-chiswick-800pm

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Letter sent to Socialist Platform

Dear Comrades

We have read your Statement of Aims and Principles for the proposed "Left Unity Party" and have noticed many similarities with our Object and Declaration of Principles and the positions we have developed and propagated over the years.

We have in mind in particular the need for a principled, explicitly socialist party that concentrates on campaigning for socialism as "capitalism does not and cannot be made to work in the interests of the majority" and which holds that "the socialist transformation of society... can only be accomplished by the working class itself acting democratically as the majority in society" using "both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary means."

As there can be no point in two socialist parties in one country we should like to propose a meeting to discuss the principle of a single socialist party, based on sound socialist principles, as opposed to forming yet another leftwing reformist party.

Looking forward to your reply

Yours for Socialism

Oliver Bond
SPGB General Secretary