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DUDDUILCLS of Sinn Fein are active in the current strike waves. but the unions infiltrated by reactionaries the Workers who try to take the naquestion Oul of politics.
This area needs a lot of our attention work because we are weak in the South.
we will be playing, as MPs, much the same role as our Assembly representalives at the moment involving ourselves in the politics of the community We will go on fighting for decent housing, welfare, and all the othet coe amente nanavc been systematically run down under British rule.
Overall, though, we will be building a revolutionary, radical alternative to the SDLP.
election special will be out in the next two weeks. To order copies fte oi sci write to: LCI BM Box 5355, WCIN there's one thing 1 rate about election time sephologists and.. LABOUR's NEC has forced Reg Freeson as candidate on Brent East Constituency Labour Party. The Party ruefully accepted this ... but battle over reselection recommences on 10 June.
'We will mount a massive national campaign to kick out the present NEC leadership and elect one that will carry out conference decisions.
After légal advice against continuing with its selection the comrades agreed to comp ly. But those gathere‹ Ine conference (which had been called before the NEC had imposed candidate) • decided on who they would have chosen, given the chance. The imposed candidate, Freeson received. 3 votes. Ken ingstone received 53 and a standing ovation.
(Brent East CLP)
The NEC knows that it nasn e wo ana must crush Brent : East or retire with a bloodv nose your time? that Colin Adams, GMC Chairperson, has promised will use the period to try to build up support for the right and will try to pack the GMC with tame delegates.
If this tactic fails it will try trontal approach and will use any pretext it can to dissolve the barty Freeson would give the right one of its best excuses.
Far from being a vindication of the GMC would, in fact, give Johr Golding an excuse to tour the area 'building up' the In Brent East the imposition of Freeson has so ScKclcu members that Good morning, sir I take a few minutes of Do you agree ward be d disaster? some refused to canvass him There art number of close marginals nearby and there is a feeling that to canvass for Freeson is to capitulate.
Socialist Action supporters, whilst sympathising with this feeling, have argued that the best way to ensure reselection after the election is to work for the party in Brent East. Many will be recruited in this election We need to make sure thes hear our arguments first.
Freeson's imposition is even more Diller Io1• bic Irish community to accept.
There will be an Irish candidate standing against Socia Democratic candidate has covered himself in shamrocks.
Yet the only natural ally the Irish people have in the election is the labous movement. In this case that means a Labour vote Party to kick out Freeson! Jomlng the want pollste om the Su
Socialist Action 27 May 1983
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