OFE FOR ABO A TORY MP FOR EVERY SIOR VOTE | Socialist Action 1983

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 2-5 of 6; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 13 of the scan

against the ban on Militant, against the suspension of Wythenshaw, against the expulsion of Tariq Ali.

Nothing would more air' in the Party energies for outward than ending all the remnants and new This also spills such as the leadership question. How LILE fight reinstatement irrespective of Neil Kinnock and Kof tattersier's views and even if it cuiminaies damaging row for the Party?

Policies issue that will shape relations in le left and in the Labour Party. On some questions, notably for example proposals to extend women's rights in the 'No opposing JOLI legal attacks in Tribune, it should be possible for the left very rapidly to get Montage available as a poster from Cath Tate, 39 Kingswood Rd, London SW2, price, including postage 50p.

'clear the and release its campaigning, But Hobsbawm's proposals over into issues Tarie's costition.

the mos! 'dramatic the second crucia wouid be Party to divide.

Silkin's they would have to be opposed. agreement. But on other policy ques tions the LCC rightly identifies the areas but doesn't give clear answers. We will therefore indicate very briefly what we think should be the answers.

• Neil Kinnock has gone out of his way to praise Eric Hobsbawm.

coalition, or electoral agreement with the SDP/Liberal Alliance, would be a total catastrophe for the Labour Par¿.one or the most centrai panks oithe lett must be oppostion to any such DOC.

4 coalition line is precisels one of and unexpected circumstances" on which we believe it • V:

Fi for the Labour Even if this meant ly, IS dividing from top to bottom. If the ieadership supported coalition ther minimum wage must mean exactly what it says it does - and as the TGWU resolution passed at this year's conference put it. That means in the term of one parliament all nuclear weapons and bases must be ty. off Britain's soil and its waters. This includes the scrapping of Polaris. Any other policy means the risk of nuclear annihilation for the British people.

& The labour Party has to recognise wiste er to play in Ireland and must from tha country. This incidentally, has potentiali! overshehning support in the elecsick that a very progressive step, both economically and electoralbeing taken by the Party adopting a position for a national - although we want to see it go further than it does at present. But Roy Hattersley's proposal to link this with an incomes policy is

page 14 of the scan

Socialist Action 11 November 1983