SuLa discussed candidates for the NEC. It was THE CRISIS which had been developing publicly for some months in the 'soft left' exploded last week. The first signs of this had come in a polemic which had been developing in the pages of Tribune since the last party On one side Ken Livingstone had been arguing that the task was to unite the left to fight against the right wing. Policies advocated as necessitating such unity included opposition to all the expulsions taking place in the party including both in the Liverpool party and that of Amir Khan and Kevin Scally; defence of the present mandatory system of reselection of MPs; defence of the policy of unilateral nuclear disarma ment; support for the constitutiona demands of the Women's Action Com
Socialist Action1987Socialist Action No. 162, 10 April 1987
LCC explodes!
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