Photo: courtesy MERSEYSIDE COUNTY COUNCIL Ferry across the Mersey movement support for the council is growing.
Liverpool council workers he Labour Group.
Liverpool MP Labour Party chairperson Eric Heffer has called on the labour movement give full support to cour cils in the iront attacks. But the dream ticket leadership not in favour of a real fight to defend local government. It has begun to show us truc cuiouls The Group defections gave Neil Kinnock John Cunningham (shadow environment spokesperson) the opportunity io step They have met Liverpool management insisted that nre regulanons required more than 2000 be Despite this, cuowcu inl. șupport was overwhelmIng.
NALGO Secretary Pete Cresswell pledged that all excluded members would be given the opportunity to vote on the resoution passed by meeting. He later told a press conference that such à ballot would not affect the outcome of the vote. 'I don't see any reason to belleve, ne sala, unal une people excluded would nock has moved in to break up the council's stand against the Tories. This comes at a time when labour have voted overcouncillors and MPs to persuaae inem lo daupl a budget of 60 per cent rate £1.50 rent increases Kinnock has made clear he opposed councils defying the law. Instead, they should star office and administer Tory cuts. Presumably this means Labour should also accept the abolition of the GLC metropolitan councils, and stay within the law by cooperating to It would uras crowels also mean that when rate capping comes into effect next year Labour councils would make big redundan cies and cuts in services.
The result? would take the blame for the Tory attacks. To avoid this, must fight these attacks - and thai means defying the law The dream-ticket course is indistinguishable from the right wing's. stand on Liverpool shows Ind wea i comes io uc decisive issues, the 'middle ot the road unity offen. sive ends up in the arms of Socialists must defend Liverpool. If the council's stand is defeated, it makes harder to defend the GLC metropolitan councils, harder resist rate van/il If Labour doesn't lead the fight against Tory attacks, the working will never see it s the main ahemalv governmen it's giving an enthusiastic reception to the US firm National SemiconducLOT. who are setting up shop in Greenock. get a dollop dough trom the government bul officials of the Scottish Development Agency are just too coy anybody that National Semiconductor has jus done a deal with the US law officials and settled a two-year investigation into its tesung or millal) microcircuits charged with wa 40 counts of making false stalcilclls government to the mail US The firm are expected to plead guilty and pa! costs and fines of sl. million. There is no truth as tar as we khow l lac rumour that Mark has do a spot ol PR work for them.
WE CAN now revea that the Sparticist League was the real force behind the Benn victory in Chesterfield. Not only did they write offering 'critical support' itself worth some 20,000 They also put him VULD.
straight on oo-ranll telling him in an 'open 'that abolishing the Tetre 'licensing laws' was one of the ways to win.
A thirsty and grateful Chesterfield electorate endorsed this and zoomed home. When you have the Sparticist it just proves you don't need politics.
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have voted against.' WITH LESS THAN three weeks before Liverpool's budget day on 29 March, Labour leader Neil Kin-
whelmingly to strike on the 29th. London Labour Party regional conference has voted unanimously to support Liverpool. And Ken Livingstone has stated will move a motion of support in the GLC
An election winner?