New Statesman , 2 Sept 2016 (Briefing - Corbyns favorittidning) Peter Tatchell, who was a radical left candidate in the infamous Southwark and Bermondsey by-election of 1983, summarizes the outlook of Briefing, when he wrote in Labour London Briefing in 1981:

“Labour has long lost the radical and defiant spirit of its early pioneers. We now seem stuck in the rut of an obsessive legalism and parliamentarianism…reliant on the present token and ineffectual parliamentary opposition will advance us nowhere…we must now look to a new, more militant form of extra parliamentary opposition which involves mass popular participation”