NEC slate WHAT a lucky paper Socialist Action is to have Sarah Roelofs writing for it.
Not only is she clairvoyant report meetings yet to happen, in the past tense but also can report on secret meetings of the London left, which the party in the country Is meant to follow.
Unfortunately though, there was some interterence on her crystal ball, and her account of the Labour Coordinating Committee's attitude to the National Executive Commiliee state Is quite wrong.
Traditionally, the LCC has been extremely wary of the NEC slates as it has always been unclear on what basis, and by whom, they are drawn up. acute KEN Livingstone's speech on the next steps for the abouren corally deserved its full page spread in SA 14, as it was a lot more politically acute than many or the paper's pre-election articles and analyses some Middlesbrough In particular we have never been sure whether we are supporting a list of CODIC wiosc DolLics are OK, or merely people. able to win and better than hard right wingers.
This year it seemed possible that a consensus could be reached around this latter approach and macca Il nas workea Ior the trade union section. But the women's section presents real dilemmas, as il is cical lnal wiere Is nu consensus as to whether Ken Livingstone to support principled feminists or candidates who can win.
The LCC has therefore only backed four candidates - Hart, Beckett, Maynard and clearly no consensus on the last place.
Attitudes to the "boycott the register' into it, as we have backed candidates with ditterent attitudes to this in the Write to: Letters, Write to us!
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