unese resolutions OUDUSIIL arguing Labour should ditwould mean any campaign disapWe are in.
out to Peoples and other organisations impact, we aTen Success On these policies there have been three years for in the city, even when the national trend has been against it.
Yet the council has acquiesced in a policy of carOU l ment cuts and rent rises to the tune of £100 million in cuts and 150 rises. The question has thus become of countability the most local teve MAKE KOON FOR THE musnkooms. could stop increasing number ot branches selecting their existing left-wing But there represcillalves. was a final sting in the tail of the NEC inquiry - I an unpublicised report to the which sallic lucculle five socialists from the party and which heavily restricted parliamentary re-selections reorganised constituencies.
The Catch 22 (or 29)
WITH EACH SHELTER MEDICAL AND TI'S LOW-PRICED!!
was the expulsion from the Labour group of all those councillors defying the group whip by voting fol policy. Not that removal from the Labou group is a new idea. But the implication - heavily leaked to the press by the NEC right wing - is that counciliors without the group whip cannot stano tions.
In other words, the pursuit of anti-Tory policies is a disqualification for representing the Tory measures eliminated Just Clav Cross councillors :
decade ago, so the NEC proposes to remove all op position to itself. For if "these disqualified coun cillors defy the NEC ban and stand in local elec tions, they can be expelled hom une parly, and any local branches supporting them disbanded And we can be sure that these expulsions will processed rather more quickly than John O'Grady's Panels It is not just that rightwingers are put back on municipal panels without reterence to the rules. (The NEC put LWU SDP members on Manchester's THERS!
KIT - THREE JUNIOR ASPIRIN AND AN ELASTOPLAST! INCK VISLY THE WHOLEL THING panel in 1981.) And it is not just that "dissident' left-wingers thrown out of the Labour group politics palace revolution in the press.)
What elected representatives voting for that policy can be effectively . witch-hunted out of political activity.
Change For the reality of the witch-hunt is that working be prevented from achiering the one thing necessar senti the prevention socialist policies in power, locally nationally, which common thread between the expulsion of Militant's editorial board, the campaign acicar reler Tatchell in Bermondsey, the restrictions on conference decisions on parliamentary ac contability, tempt debar council candidates in Manchester And it is the pursuit of socialist policies in power, locally nationally, which the ground for the left's opposition to all these attácks COR MAG HAVEN'T YOU HEARD? ALL SHELTERS ARE ¡USELESS!!
SO WHY NO • BUY THE CHEAPEST?
Socialist Action 25 March 1983
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