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party. stand taken by many left MPs is therefore to be welcomed. Tony Benn's speech in Bristol last week defended the democratic rights of Marxists and Trotskyists to be members of the Labour Party.
But the fight against the diversionary witch-hunt is lost if it is not combined with an assault on the very leaders whose policies are responsible for the attacks on living standards. And the same Tony Benn has for the past two years and more taken his full share of collective responsibility for Labour's Tory policies.
HITE week. Officers opposed to the reselection of Prentice for the next election were returned with their majorities. increased threefold. The meeting which elected them was attended by per percent of the 84-strong General Prentice, who himself has taken one step further away from the labour movement by rejecting his T&GWU sponsorship, blamed apathy for his defeat. "The results are a reflection of the apathy of people who didn't come.' One notable absentee was Mr Prentice himself, who now rarely attends meetings organised by his own constituency The fight to remove Prentice has acted as a beacon for all those fighting for the representatives of the labour movement to be made accountable to their base, rather than to parliamentary cliques and circles.
Over the past two months and more he has sat in the Government which has been cooking up secret deals with the Algernons of the IMF. Not once has he spoken out. and thrown weight building action to stop une cuts Other lefts on the NEC have done little more. endorsed the Social Contract, LIC DaNCI under which the working class has been made to pay for a capitalist crisis.
The Labour Party Conference called for 'the Labour Party to conduct will call no labour movement action in response to Healey's cuts. The lefts' conception of an 'active campaign' is talk, talk and more talk. his with the so-called 'mini-Budget'. As a first step, the lefts must vote against the mini-Budget. They have The NEC must roll back the witch-hunt. It must throw out the Underhill report and appoint Andy Bevan. And it must recall the Party Conference in order to put an end to all bans and proscriptions and launch a campaign of mass action against the Government's Tory policies.
Gariaun~ with apologies to THEI The time for talking has ended There's a trot ab ut.
Crime Preventin Dept., Bon St Keeping in with Algy. SUNNY JIM Callaghan rushed into the Commons last week to face a question from Libera . leader, David Steel. Was it the Government's policy, Steel asked, to stir up 'envy, greed and class conflict?
Sunny Jim was undoubtedly as surprised as the rest of us that anyone could dream of such a thing. Of course not, he told what the sun described 'cheering Tories'.
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