political recognition 'We refute most strong ly the tag of criminal with which the British have atChallenge 'WE, the Republican Prisoners of War in H-Block, Long Kesh, demand as of right and that accorded the status of political prisoners.
We claim this right as captured combatents in the continuing struggle for national liberation and self-determination. be AS WE go to press, Labour leader Jim Callaghan is about to declare whether he stays on Labour leader.
Despite appearCallaghan does not have the interests of the labour movement at heart.
Instead he has aimed introducing a right-wing figure like Denis Healey 10g to sabotages the sabotage tremendous victory won by the left at the Labour Parti conference this month. Flout Since then the right wing has put the heat on Callaghan to openly flout the decisions of the conference by planting a winger In the leadeasid Owen has gone further and demanded that the next leader of the Labour Party should be elected by MPs alone, ignoring the conference decision extend the vote on the leader to the trade unions and the par.ity rank ana lie. This is democracy means for the Gang of Three These manoeuvres by the parliamentary clique could be crushed if trade union leaders such Evans and David Bassnet were to exert the tenan eas strength of the unions inside the par.compel the Labour leadership to most democratic form of elec LOE currently proposed - the party conference.
Worried But they won't. Like Callaghan they are worried by the consequences of workers democracy in the party and the effects in their own unions.
Trade union militants can demand that there be a democratic decision in their own union on the method of electing the Labour Party leader.
Likewise the pro-Labour Party Democracy for MPs to discuss with their parties Labour members should be proposing resolutions that the conference should be able to decide the leader — not Jim Callaghan. It's not just the Poles who need democracy - page 4