Lessons of Croydon

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countres usually just increase ine depenaence. LADUURS VUIt In Croyaon Norn west was a majority. The basic economic mechanism of capitalism barely half of the 1979 General Election figure. works so that the rich become richer and more The Tories' , the same.

On a somewhat lower total turnout, those shifts people fighting for the policies are dangerous and gave Liberal-SDP candidate William Pitt a sizeable disruptive, then the work to win a majority faces All this is a long way off proving that the Liberal aid in collaboration with the governments of the -SDP alliance is the new dominating force of pends on people learning through struggle that the poor countries, helping them in joint economic British politics, or even that it is solid and durable. existing order of things is not unchangeable, and projects. Middle-class Croydon is just the sort of area that working people can change it. When trade Revolutionary change in the poor countries where it should do well, and especially in a by- union leaders are doing all they can to fend off themselves is also necessary to end the poverty election. Internationally, SDP-style new parties struggle and proclaim it hopeless, then parties of and starvation. Many of them have super-rich have often done well for a few months or a few the wishy-washy centre like the Liberals and SDP elites and mass unemployment amid their poverty. years, and then faded.

But certainly the Liberal-SDP team could do well Cuba - despite the bureaucratic form of the enough at the next general election to lose it for leaders and transform our movement so that it car regimes resulting from them - have already Labour - perhaps even to win a place in a new really campaign for its own policies.