With Credentials Like These...

Put in the wash of an even partly thorough investigation the FCP and SUP come out paler than the palest pink. While both can claim their base of support in the organised trade union movement there ends their association with working class politics. Both offer political programmes full of vague phrases and strategies of acheiving socialism that could have come straight from Alice in Wonderland. The practical activity of both is to consistently oppose mass struggles outside of the arena of Parliament and election campaigns and narrow everything down into a struggle to win votes — with the inevitable compromises to win over the middle voter that ensue.