Mirror sodoy, Hety 23, 1984 Peted miser briter and mode arena die are one else ice Mow it is sinking through neglect. aldren were is moden based thor Sides solor being killed i RN TO PAGE TWO FIGHT Past in born mea 1 the do to an in "he lor the first time STOP RESELECTION! Defend the right wing! Smash the lunatic left! This is the aim of the campaign for one member one vote opened up by Neil Kinnock and the right wing. is the opening shot in a battle to try to wipe out most of the democratic gains made in the Labour Party over the last five years. The dream ticket mask has careerists who ride rough-shod over party policy. The people who were responsible for the debacle of the Wilson-Callaghan years are fighting to win back their monopoly of power.
The left should be under no illusion about the seriousness of this attack.
The right are on the march again. Mr Robert Maxwell, quired a slice of the free press, through the votes of millions of pounds, made this clear in Monday's Daily Mirror.
The changes in reselection proposed by Kinnock assure. L'S, 'would be small step towards sanitv'. It goes or to say ...it would be a dramatic beginning'.
Precisely. A beginning.
The Labour Party that The proposed change in the rules on reselection dominated the Mirror and the right wing are fighting for is not the party of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the exploited. It is the party of incomes policy. tion laws, and the status statement •i one member one vore was hailed as 'the most challenging of his month leadership'. Certainly it contrast to his luke-warm support tor ine miners The Mirror entirely with pollicy.
According to Maxwell, the Labour Party must be d party which believes in the supremacy of parliament, not violent inLabour Party whose e deci sions taken This is why the Mirror supports Shore, whose atacks on Arthur Scargill put him below the level of the lowest scab.
It is also why the Mirror supports Frank Field who would deliver Labour anti-trade pro• ant-unilateralist SDP Such a Labour Party callliu tolerate tability. It needs cabinet and the 'sanctity' of parliament.
'Kinnock's decision to line up with these forces shows clearly where he intends to take the party. The aim of the Kinnock wing to defeat smash up the Bennite left. To that end, they will opp establishment of black sections, real power TO women in short, anything thai moves towaras being ar active, campaigning party with real Illas. Ilvove ment This attack on the must be fought to the finish found courage stand the bully-boys of the right, whose favourite weapon is the witch hunt and whose policies are those that led to the catastrophes of the Wilson Callaghan governments.
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