LONDON LABOUR SAYS Recall Conference!

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ment. The London Labour Party Regional Council last weekend resoundingly rejected cuts in the social wage. An emer gency resolution from Norwood and Acton condemned the cuts in the Gov. ernment's White Paper and called on the NEC to convene a special party conference. tre emerrency resorution came a the end of a meeting which had vigor ously re ecico cutbacks. nevermeies there is no doubt that the NEC will be able to ignore it unless it is campaigned for at every level of the labour moveTypifying this attitude of the labour bureaucrats was Barbara Castle - not in the slightest concerned at being the only speaker to support health cuts. She foll owed a display of left demagogy designed to associate her with the mood of tne meeting by counterposing neart expenditure to other social expenditure. In this way she defended NHS cuts in the name of a socialist system of fair shares. What she really supports is the capitalist system of less for everyone The Regional Council also came out firmly against cuts in education and the housing programme. It demanded that local authorities requisition and put to use houses empty for over six months; and that the GiL. implement its manifesto pledge of low flat fares leading to free public transport. Socialists, especally in London should make use of these decisions by London Labour in orace to extend the rigat against the The labour NiC's refusal to call a spec tal labour Party conference to take up the fight against unemployment and the cuts has been roundly condemned by Homel Hempstead Labour Party's Gen eral Management Committee. despite BOSEE TONE HIGHES HOURC Robin Corbett.

An amendment to the motion calling for selective import controls was narrowsaid that this would lead to a reactionary alliance of British workers and capitalists against the international workers movement, in a deliberate attempt to make the latter pay for the failure of British capitalism' As L.PYS and other speakers pointed out. though, resolutions are only useful il thev lead on toaction. Oniv an active fight within the workers movement ag aust the wuson/nicaley Murray measure and the removal of the right-wing leadership can stop labour on the road to

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Red Weekly 11 March 1976 SLP/Education/Rally 5

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