vcars. Haczoy reselection of MPs by the sole body, the general committees can in any sense make them accountable is under direct attack It has to be defended by the entire left.
Second, the entire left was always united in its opposition to expulsions as a method of resolving questions in the party. fact, support for expulsions N no no CyD loIR as Clause 4 in the LCC as not really of the left at all -bul ds ngnl wing entrvists in the left.
The reason may be seen samply It is absurd to claim, as did LCC member Fiona McTaggert at the debate bet. ween the LLL and LCC at Socialist Action's 'Building an Alliance for Socialism' weekend, that the LCC supporteu expulsions mn Liverpool because had taken example defending reselection, fighting on Knowsley Ignililig expulsions, galll : Sections, British other On Left joint work these demands.
agree Ken Livthe Campaign Group Tribune Group should Iusea, or LLL and LCC should be, what we do support is the idea of ioint work on agreed objectives. IN LAST week's Tribune Ken Livingstone criticised the sectarian stance of the LCC to Left Liaison.
He called for unification of the left. The issues involved in this must be clarified.
Separate organisation cannot be supported for the sake of it. Separate organisation becomes inevitable fundamental uutsluis are tvolved. These include:
(i) The issue of expulsions not Militant but party Expulsion of DUBBULECIN spreads to damage the whole party's democracy. Khan and Scally, Knowsley North, and other cases make this clear.
There cannot be unity on the left while witch hunts threatening democracy are supported.
H1OSH tant gain party democracy has made is the right of GCs to accountability of MPs through reselection. Without this no possibility exists of holding Labour YOYCHLLLICID IU COlLILinstructed the NEC not to NEC flouted this.
The Tribune Group has called for upholding party policy. The LCC has actively campaigned for flouting it. The need to uphold accountability necessitates separalt organisation nom lose nol ucicnull. party policy.
(iii) Campaigns sociated with the LLL no longer accept as good coin purely verbal support for the Labour Women's Action Committee, the Labour Party Black Section, the Labour Committee on Ireland other pressure showed that the LCC did not deliver support either of resolutions in support of the demands of CLPD, WAC, the Black Section, and others, nor votes for the NEC for women and black candidates. Tribune Group members failing to vote for Jo Richardson for the Shadow Cabinet, mentioned by Ken Livingstone, mirrors the failure LCC supporters deliver practical support for campaigns in the party.
We cannot speak for the Campaign Group. But the LLL ICHATUS unification of the left outside the PLP has to flow from an agreed which does not presently exist - as the LCC fails to support issues which are not sectarian but at the core of any strategy for socialism.
What we welcome is
Socialist Action 5 Dec 1986