Argentine government better suited to USA?

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to pleas but only responds to pressure, a Labour GLC and ILEA will appeal to the Labour and trade union movement to take action, including industrial action, to support its stand.

'Mass opposition to Tory policies led by a Labour GLC could become the focal point of a national campaign against the cuts, for an immediate General But once again the left had allowed itself to be intoxicated by phrases and symbols. Whatever words assiduous left-wingers in the manifesto drafting parties had managed to slip through, the Labour movement in London was not committed to a serious fight. Worse: the left had failed to fight within the movement for a hard commitdemanded to know whether he was really a Marxist, Livingstone replied that he had never send Mered pree der cane• a ramcal 'The Labour Left's policies have not just failed for lack of energetic people. They have failed because they are based on no clear theoretical understandin&. What is to stop the current Labour programme becoming qually utopian! What is to si IN PEPLY to Colin Foster's comments in SO 155. Marxists start from an analysis of the whole struggle worldwide. To focus on the relationship between the working class and the capitalist class in Argentina is to miss out the whole role of imperialism and the differing interactions between the imper¡alist nations and the workers' states, which in turn interact with the varying natures of the class struggles within the capitalist nations.

The ir vasion of the Malvinas weakeneri the military junta, but aiso helped to bring to power in Argentina à civilian regime much more in tune with the requirements of the US imperialists, ie. a capitalist state mure acceptabie to the western powers and amenable to maripulation. This in turn will intensify the class struggle in Argentina, i.e. both the bosses and the workers were and are affected.

But of course the reverberations go well beyond Britain and the Malvinas. The crisis that is described by Colin Foster is now being dealt with differently as can be seen by the invasion of Grenada The UK invasion of the Malvinas showed the US that it no longer had to pussyfoot around with regard to 'unacceptable' regimes. Instead it could now fight its way in whenever it faced a challenge to imperialist expansion.

It is always the hallmark of reformists to see things changing gradually. They never recognist something new until it reaches the history books. Defence cf the rights of the Argentine working class demands the struggle on a worid scale against imperialism.

Yours fraternally, JOHN LOWERY Tadcaster