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| Andy Brooks during the discussion |
by New Worker correspondent
Where
is Labour going was the theme of a New Worker round-table discussion at the
Cock Tavern, near Euston station, in central London last week. It was opened by
a panel including NCP leader Andy Brooks, Gerry Downing of Socialist Fight and
Marie Lynam, a rank-and-file Labour party activist. Marie gave a full report of
the ground-breaking Labour conference in Brighton this year, and Gerry and Andy
high-lighted campaigning points in the run-up to what will almost certainly be
another election in the new year.
Everyone agreed that the
reinstatement of Labour members suspended or expelled on trumped-up charges of
“anti-Semitism” by the Blairite bureaucracy came top of the agenda and that the
first act of a new Labour government must be the restoration of free collective
bargaining. What comes after depends upon the balance of forces within the
labour movement. Most of the subsequent discussion revolved around the problem
of making the case for socialism to the new generation that has rallied to
Jeremy Corbyn’s banner in recent years.
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