struggle against Thatcher's project.
Any discussion of the situation that exists in Liverpool today can proceed only from that understanding. within that context, and that context alone, that a debate about redundancy notices or alternative action can be had out, and hand out correctly. The overriding point to be grasped about the situation on Merseyside is that there is no alternative but to confront the Tory axe depleted by Liverpool, its decades of Tory and resources Liberal misrule, has no fat to live on. That is why, for the last 18 months, the Militant-led city council has commanded genuine mass support from among its own workforce, from among Liverpoor voters, and mont among the labour movement as a whole. Struggle Having said that, it is necessary suing 31,000 redundancy notices to the council workforce is a deep error one which opened the way for the attack made by Kinnock and his supporters, one wmen let mem or tae hook at party conference. Whatever the Council's intentions, to activists in the labour movement, the redundancy notices are seen as a means of councillors avoiding surcharge and debarment from office.
No one imagines that Liverpool council set out to do anything other than protect jobs and services. Yet their methods of attempting to so do have led to a great deal of confusion.
Opposed Tne redundancy notices, the majority of council unions quite
the NUM and to those Labour councils who continued to fight. If fighting Socialist Action 11 October 1985