Shelving socialism: the launch of "Respect"
"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 onl...