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"We would all subscribe to the aspiration of workers' representatives on a worker's wage", said Paul Holborow of the SWP at the launch conference on Sunday 25 January of the new George Galloway electoral coalition ("Respect"). But, said Holborow, "we must remember that 'Respect' is not an explicitly socialist organisation". To commit it to workers' representatives on a worker's wage might "put off some people we want to attract, for example George Galloway". The "worker's wage" policy must therefore remain only "an aspiration".
It is over twenty years since the final collapse of the left-wing Liverpool Labour council of 1983-6. Through that council, the avowedly Marxist “Militant Tendency” had the leadership of a mass workers’ movement which could have shaken or defeated the government. Arguably it marked the highest point ever (so far) of active mass influence for would-be revolutionary Marxists in Britain, higher than anything achieved by the Communist Party when it was a revolutionary party in the 1920s.