Nottingham wants open selection | Socialist Action 1983

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likely seats. Possibly equally damaging in their ferences prowhich the NEC have comorehensivel undermined A included i process This allows them to impose short lists of existing MPs or prospective candidates from fragments of old constituencies which are included in new consti•tuencies.

Already a number of Labour parties are attempting to challenge the NEC St. Helens, Gorton, Pollack, Islington parties and Nottingham East want stand by decisions and the right to hold open selections.

The Nottingham East situation is likely to leave the NEC attempting to ımose a prospective. can Martyr Sloman who brings in a minority of wards into the new constituency. Furthermore the PIECE OF THE ACTION A crown prosecutor. assisting people to the, wrong end of a rope.. a peculiar occupation for a mystic. selection of Sloman in the old East Nottingham constituency was very con- i • troversial and had led to allegations that people who were not properly members of the Labour Party had voted A subsequent NEC in. quiry held by Eric Heffer under the banner of 'party unity' did not find sufficient evidence to disallow selection. Decided In view of all this East Nottingham GC has decided by a very large majority to call for an open selecmont not treet gree ment with the • VIl a of Heseltine's latest army for a year?

timetable for this.

Advertisements have gone out asking interested supply their details and it has been decided that is imperative that any short list must give representation to women and blacks.

What might embarrass the NEC and stop it just In pally the events in the nearby Sherwood constituency The situation there is exactly the same as East Nottingham, but there an open selection will be allowed. The National of Mineworkers want Even John Golding-dominated NEC is worried about trampling on the rights of the miners.

Dad! Have you heard people like me to join the You'll never attain. atori that way, son affiliated Against the Witch hunt.

whose National Council decided to: • Fight for the reinstatement of expelled Militant editors • Fight to scrap the register at the Labour Campaign with the • Steering Committee to defend CLPs 11,000 copies of it: latest newsletter have been printed available for 5p (3p fo bulk) from the secretary, Wilderton Road, London N16. → CORMAC #6 4/83 i'? Pe rhaps that acid he used back in the remaining brain cells.

..which might explain the old man. • but what would explainthe ludicrous • Heseltine:

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Socialist Action 22 April 1983