Sheffield Healy Labour Party (personal capacity) SHEFFIELD'S fight against rate-capping has received its first major set-back. But it was not at the hands of Jenkin or Thatcher. This was an own goal.
The neeting on Wednesday RATE CAPPING GM COOKSON photo. Labour leader's determination to strengthen his alliance with the new realist right of the movement. His call for a new ballot is designed to pre-empt the investigation which is due to finish on 29 April, and to be considered by the executive on 9 May.
It puts him alongside SUCH figures Chapple and Terry ( Duffy HOLLU CHLOE David Owen Fleet Street.
The fact that he 'MP TGWU-sponsored makes his treachery all the greater. Kinnock has strong interest in securing general secretaryship of the for George Wright A left-led TGWU is a major obstacle to Kinnock's drive to the right which has accelerated since the end of the miners' The TGWU supported Benn deputy Headerson campaign, and stands on the lett on Dolcv issue. most notably on nuclear disarmament and incomes policy. Labour's shift to the right on policy will include Hattersley's incomes policy position.
Important Wright would be a maTGWU's stanc these questions. The TGWU has played • an important role in the Wales Labour Party the right. The contribution the Wales region of the union is a resolution which seeks to bar Militant supporters from holding office in the exclude them the which the union is conducting and While the press campaigr centred on Todd's vote there is ZO a COH Wales about Wright's VOLC Ihe turnout there was 6! per cent, , which is very high Wright got 89 per cent of the vote while Todd managed only 4.9 seems extremely unlikely that the vote there would be so out of step with the national picture. These are questions for the — IO the media or the courts. Internal The campaign is being conducted with the aim of Dillil discrediting the left. It is clear that the right wing is assisting the campaign, the belief that after the defeat the miners the right will be strengthened 1l a ical ballot. Moss Evans sharp rebuft to kinnock should deliver for his disloyalty, and insist that the union's internal investigation be allowed to proceed without in. terference.
stand will SDP's campaign aid the against work-place Dalluts will alsl damage the politica SUCCL funds ballots. The left in the Labour Party must defend the TGWU's right to deal with its own affairs, and dissociate itself from Kinnock's position.