Sheffield. and by doing that begin to pose the To do this with These are expressed in sales anniversary cake.
humiliation, as an "illegal' bound' Labour Party cruised to power.
In Manchester, where peopie were unact no mu sions that they weren't just but for vole dal- 1oly.
Labour's left against its cowardly and timid right wing the election recorded emphatic VICIOLY radical policies In Sheffield once again the left administration of David Blunkett got the thumos up the city electorate.
Wherever stood up against the Tories it gained seats and votes. In Liverpool, the Tories' defeat came close to and an 'unlawfullythe industrial heartlands it is obvious that left-wing helped cause. They not only bloodied the nose of the Tories but they also kept the SDP/Liberal Alliance at bay.
Groundswell These elections showed ThaT the groundswell of opposition the Tories build up and gain strength. The working class and its allies are not yet in their majority dashing out the streets to make the socialist revolution. But bigger and bigger numbers ot them are prepared to endorse policies which are anti-capitalist and allegedly unlawful.
This is why they supnort me unes anu wil they rally behind councils keeverDool don't to the Tories then their future and that of their families is in danger. Labour must in these circumstances a realistic and sensible atLUTI back on collaboration with the due process of the law. because that can only line it up with the Tories in their offensive against the miners and the people rejecting rate capping. Mandate Thursday's local elections gave Labour a thumping majority for taking on ine lores. It snowed that there not thousands but millions of people lining up Labour's banner must make sure that these people • not lett nigr and dry simply waiting for the dav in the tuture wher has Westminster It must seize the mandate given by these elections and place itself at the The Tories struggle against the lawful or otherwise. APOLOGIES!!! ogies to readers and to Socialist Action the victims - the Yardley witch hunt. Last week's page 14 article inadvertently gave lf t • regional headouarters as the ad. dress from which facts the BirminghamYardley 5 could be obtained. This most assuredly not the case Instead, readers should write to the campaign ad dress: 13 Oxford Road, Acocks Green, ingham. Resolutions in support of the Yardley 5 Copied to the regional of however should
Socialist Action 11 May 1984
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THE LOCAL ELECTIONS make it clear that That- cher and Thatcherism are not popular. Not just the icing, but the candles have been nicked off the fifth