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Labor's new leftists advocate frightening doctrines "This government has got to be forced out of office!" cried a Young Socialist and self-professed "Trotskyite" at an anti-Thatcher rally earlier this winter. As the thunderous roar of approval died down, the frail, white-maned figure of Labor Party Leader Michael Foot stepped to the microphone. "Throw the government out!" yelled Foot. Then he cautioned: "But prepare to destroy at the ballot...
...party's radical wing: Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, and Labor M.P. Frank Allaun, a pacifist often suspected of pro-Moscow views. Bevan thus became chief Marxist proselytizer among the nation's youth. Says he: "I'm trying to convince young people to fight for real socialist policies where it counts. We have to transform the Labor Party...
Bevan zealously believes a democratic form of radical Marxism is possible in Britain. The '80s, he thinks, will be the "decade of the Big Option," meaning that Britons will have to decide "between Thatcherism and the radical socialist alternative." Indeed, if the Andy Bevans get their way, Britain's polarization may be just beginning...
...last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus launching Mitterrand's third bid for the Elysée. Not to be outdone, Communist Leader Georges Marchais, 60, who has presidential ambitions...
Some, however, would advocate a permanent government role in setting wages and prices, as well as other features of a typically socialist economy. The essential choice that faces the country today is between this socialist view, and a vision for which Reagan is often criticized. It is a view of a healthy America made strong by productive individuals who live in a free society of limited government. If Reagan's plan fails, if the current crisis continues, the nation will most likely react by turning to socialism. But it will do so only after a wave of unparalleled social upheaval...