The Sup's Sick Strategy to Support Labour

While some employers argued that the failure of the Auckland stopworks stemmed from the workers unwillingness to become involved in politicking it was clearly not that simple. The Labour Party is now seen by many workers as little better than National and tens times less effective. This is a far more likely reason for low attendances at rallies designed to bolster support for Labour. Sure workers want to defeat the reactionary policies of the National Government but they don't want to do it by placing their eggs in the basket of a Labour Government which could turn out equally reactionary.

Reconsideration of the media view of the Auckland stopworks is necessarily more complex. It is tied up with the whole question of whether the only concrete way to correct the drift to fascism under a Natioanl Government is to elect a Labour Government in November. I disagree and plan to look at the question of supporting Labour and the Auckland stop-works (which showed workers aren't keen to support Labour) in a forthcoming article on this question.

Political Correspondent