Socialism in The State Of The Left And Demoeracy LOl. MARIE STINSON is the Labour candidate for a West Yorkshire County Council by-election in the Chapel-Allerton/Scot metropolitan which gives this campaign a particular significance.
THE by-election is important because it might be last metropolitan county council election fought in West Yorkshire. As such it br. councils threatened with abolition, come out and vote and this cannot be done in any other way than by convincing them that our arguments are the vide right ones.
The attack on local democracy is essential for them at the moment although they control national ment, the Labour Party stil controis many of the key areas of local government. We still hold severa key cities. The councillors in Liverpool and elsewhere have already shown how local government can prothe arena for thorough-going challenge OF