The SCLV launched the newspaper Socialist Organiser and produced its own campaigning materials that local Constituency Labour Parties could use instead of official posters and leaflets.
In the event, Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 general election for the Conservative Party.
36 years later, the SCLV was refounded in the run-up to the 2015 general election.
[1] The campaign says its members do not "just want to “hold their noses” and just vote Labour as a lesser evil."
[2] Prominent supporters include the Labour MP John McDonnell, journalist and author David Osler, and a large number of labour movement activists and elected representatives.