TAKING on James Callaghan in South-East Cardiff Independent Socialist, Pat Arrowsmith will be renewing an old acquaintance - of sorts.
*I bear Callaghan one or two grudges' says Pat. 'He was responsible for having imprisoned Labour Secretary 1964 — I was given six months for non-violent action against British connivance American war in Vietnam."
Such past encounters are not what decided Pat to stand in South-East Cardiff. But there is no doubt that the respectable press would describe her as the sort of person who does 'bear grudges' She has been organiser in the nuclear HON CHECHEL. leading opponent American war in Vietnam, and I'm standing centrally LUW. on the issue of self-determination for Ireland, on the need to get the troops out' Fighting a general election is nothing new for Pat. In 1964 she was a candidate spin-off from the CND called Radical Alliance; in 1970 she SEDGe CHE Vietnam against Labour Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart.
This time she's fighting on in more than just Says Pat: woman I'm standing on equal the rights for women, homosexual on equal rights for homosexuals.
I'm a sponsor of the Anti Nazi League, standing on SEnC as a socialist standing on general socialist issues; and as someone who has campaigned for years in the nuclear disarmament movement, that's also a the plank in the platform.' The activities planned for the campaign Cardiff already undertaken - reflect these different issues.
Only two weeks ago Pat and her campaign workers from for the United Movement and Socialist Unity picketed an army recruitment SNUC centre on the same day that soldiers were collecting for an army benevolent fund.
Other planned activities on the issue of Ireland include *As out' protests.
as 'I am also speaking at a film show organised by Nazi League', says Pat. "There will I'm also devolution, ISSUe will be other activities I'm poster parades, meetings, and assomaica general elections."
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The Independent manifesto stresses a number of local issues, CORCHOR constituency.
LOSC But because Pat intends to during the opposition leader, and Troops Out policies on Ireland, national one the campaign. organising a rat has "blanket' the Anti debate meeting on and I hope there won't be frightened.' like factory gate usual Socialist if, in the such as housing Callaghan's glances in South-East Cardiff speak in many constituencies her to the Labour particularly his will 'not just be a local campaign but a The intriguing question how much contact Arrowsmith and Callaghan will have during expressed her willingness to take Margaret Thatcher's place in a confrontation on TV with Callaghan: *Michael Stewart was prepared platform, so I hope Callaghan It would be too much to suggest that the Independent Socialist campaign will cause sleepless nights for Callaghan.
But it wouldn't be surprising course of the next couple of weeks, the Prime Minister finds himself throwing a few nerve end any direction rents, Broad building of council homes, low and all those other promises which used to appear in manifestos of the Labour But that has not been the taken by Mason, employment, the governmentsponsored Fair Agency claims that unemploymunity is still 2½ times as high CHIC Catholic as in the Protestant one.