IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Lambeth says no to cuts

Socialist Challenge No. 107, 2 August 1979 · p. 8 of the scan · 401 words

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CONSTITUENCY LABOUR parties in the London borough of Lambeth have called for all-out opposition to any cuts local expenditure.

At the 100-strong Lambeth local Boyarmical conference Sunday the delegates from the Labour Parties agreed a carried out, council into direct confrontation with the Tory Government.

Among the policies adopted was one which called on the Labour group in Lambeth to, not agree to cut its programme and...fight a sustained workers and facilities, though this in happens. has They snare coal sence HMS Vulcan uses the Dounrea! water discharge system carrying th water used in cooling reactors back into the Pentland Firth. good grounds for Vulcan is flushing LIit products out HMS system as a side-effect of the research work being carried on there. Further, and mavbe short term, Vulcan CONCH flush chemical including chromate.

This Visitors without a word about HMS Vulcan The military aspects of the Dounreay operation are never mentioned. ine british visitors seemed a trifle muted by held Labour policy which, would bring Lambeth their They are together because capitalism.

There are believing that atomnic waste when you sea through this too little to more dangerous in the using Dounreay residues away Dounreay HOV ZLOUL the whole for long! rear-guard action up and including, if from the Council or its committees'.

The conference went on to agree to 'work as never before to build a movement of solidarity with Labour councillors who resist the cuts'.

has majority on Lambeth council so if these policies are implemented then local government in Lambeth could grind to a halt. But the conference itself was advisory and a. number of councillors present made no secret of opposition the militant policies agreed by the delegates. experience. No so a pair of French ecologists who made a gallant effor in broken English to convince guide of the dangers of a hasty switch plutonium economy Look, they said pointing out to sea, how much hotter is the wa!

pump back? Seven degrees centigrade, came the answer.

worry about. Besides, Dounreay has a fishing boat which keeps an eye on thing I left the Frenchmen doing thei best to explain that Captain Cousteau had been diving off where the French had been pumping hot water into the sea and had come up calling for a vote for the Ecology candidates in she The guide replied that things are different in Britain. May'be, but rot

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