but they feel themselves to be represen-tatives alienated, poor discriminated against * many have also made common cause ¡with gay and feminist campaigns? minority wing trade union barons. this black community, the Irish in London, and the lesbian and gay community put together by the GLC under Livingstone and replace it with the old regime of a London Labour Party run by right that TGWU 'left' left is going to be caught in a tremendous crunch in the London Labour Par. ty between the right wing on one side and the hard left on the other. Furthermore all the campaigns which the soft left claim to expouse to establish their credentials the demands women, the black community, lesbians will be objectively lined up in the same camp as the hard left smashing support for inel demands Is precisely what the right wing in London is demanding. The soft Stanley writes: 'In the Labour Party conference edition of Tribune last year, Nigel Williamson contributed what was seen as an obituary of left realignment. "The soft left has probably become the least coherent grouping in the party at present," he wrote. This analysis was ringingly endorsed by Ken Livingstone at tringe meetings and. lust in case not every delegate had read Tribune, the various far-left briefings serialised extracts in a way reminiscent . of Jeffrey Archer and the Mail on Sunday throughout the week.
'At the same time a new alignment of the left was proclaimed to the world, Labour Left Liaison socialist stuffing back into the Kinnockite Labour Party and, what's more, had something new to offer.
'This was the first such coalition, we told, women and black secured the Action Labour Partv Black Section. influential individuals associated with the realigned left were impressed by this coming together...
Disaster 'But then came disaster. The annual meeting of the LCC was dominated by alleged "right-wingers" down links with Labour Left Liaison • the Labour Coordinating Not Davisons executive, reported the AGM decision this way to the eager readers of Tribune on 28 November: "As with any decision waCi tarianism than policies, it was a wrong decision..
What this really Labour Left Liaison is putting insupportable pressure on the LCC Nigel Stanley demands that people like of Williamson stop confessing in public its werkness. ingstone stop calling for 'unity on the left' and instead serious business of uniting with right to smash the left.
This pressure the LCC is under is