ABSTRACT
The Labour Party is in serious trouble, and faces a series of crises greater than it has experienced since the 1930s. The Left were quick to point out that, if the government had followed conference decisions, the winter of discontent would not have occurred and Labour would probably have won the General Election. The creation of the SDP was a major influence on the political standing of the Labour Party. The Labour Party has always contained Marxists, and it has frequently suffered from entryism from the revolutionary Left. The constitutional changes discussed earlier were initiated by activists in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy who put mandatory reselection on to the agenda, and finally had it accepted by the conference as a whole. A future Labour government will probably have to adopt an incomes policy, but it has become impossible for the party leadership to proclaim openly that they are in favour of such a policy.
