Britain: Prospects for the Seventies

Abstract

In the late nineteen-fifties, the New Left organized a conference under the title (suggested, I believe, by the late Isaac Deutscher) : "Will it be the Red Sixties?" Although one grouping has proclaimed 1970 to be "The Year of Lenin and Trotsky", and although there were undoubtedly more reds in 1969 than there had been in 1959, no-one saw fit to promote a similar discussion about the 'Seventies. Is there no prospect for Socialism in Britain during the next decade?