I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.