November): MARIE MONTAUT is the Labour candespite ward. Lambein. sandle arainst ner dre We do offer the only Party and also two far left candidates -Fascist' platform and Europe Singh of the that Marie Montaut's record is one of fives nursery campaign in Lambeth, member of the local cuts committee.
the most effective eTon about her campaign:
implemented by the Council. Anyone who consider mense ves Labour Party should stand for these posiis unal many public expenditure do not continue to be Carried our That is why Dul is disappoing that some of the groups on the left that have offered to recommend that the the National Front and National Party are standing, our aiso because of groups nke been destructive in standing against the Labour Party. supp- I think this is Labour candidate is right or left. didate in the council by-election in Angell seven other candidates, including members of the National Front and National Evan Sparks of the Maoist 'United AntiThe Labour candidate is being sup ported by the International Marxist Group in South London. They point out struggle. She is chairperson of the undertrade union delegate to the All Lambeth Anti-Racist Movement (ALARM), and a The adoption of such a militant as an official candidate by the Labour Party is way to reach the political treachery. broadest number of workers. For these reasons the IMG considers the decision by the IS to stand Europe Singh is a sectarian While the IMG supported the IS in the recent parliamentary by-elections, in this instance they consider support for Labour as the best tactic towards a class struggle Marie Montaut spoke to Red Weekly *Whether we like it or not, some of the most detrimental decisions are made and tions to enhance the left on the council; to make sure that things like the cuts in *The campaign has had a fair response, come out haven't been around. It's necessary for people to work, not only because the International Socialists, who have wrong whether the We should fight within the Labour Party for CENTEN where you had their massive vote in Deptford, I think what the IS is doing is *On racism I stand against immigratior ther, controls and the fascist parties. The Inner London Education Authority ruling in favour of the fascists using schools as a meeting place has got to be taken up. The Representation of the People Act, at thi A camonstration was callee oursice an Nrmeets . On it were Lambeth Trades Council, Norwood CLP, who had called off their South West London branches of the International Socialists and International Marxist Group. Ken Livingstone, of Norwood CLP, one of the movers of the I support the right of black people to self-defence, when they have been unable to get their case taken up by the labour movement. A good example was where the black workers were confronted by a union *If I am elected I will take up the issue of racism by taking a political stand on the Council, which will then hopefully be reflected through to people in the area especially black people. Perhaps that will make them feel less isolated. But it's not a question of whether people are black or white - it's the fact that they are working class and that at the moment Lambeth Council is hammering them left, right and 'On the cuts, white 1 am not going to charge from one cuts committee to ano I believe that a local councillor should vote in the Council, but should -SUDDOrE HI the labour movement against the cuts - because that is where the fight is going on. Support should also be given to anti-cuts committees, but my base for work is within the trade unions and Labour Party ward, Lambeth last Labour Can
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