members of the Labour Party.
Michael Foot pleaded with Shirley Williams to stay in. He traipsed along right-wing Manifesto meeting assure the right that he would not force through unilateral nuclear disar¡lallicil. would lead a fight back that against the decisions of the Wembley conference widening ine franchise.
But to no avail. These pleas were treated with contempt by the right wing.
Far from being the result the police Peter chooses to call the 'madcap left', the split of the right is the result of its determination to defend the interests of capitalism inside or outside The way to respond Printed by East End Offset (TU) Ltd, London E2 Fifty 1931, Ramsay MacDonald spli the Labour Party to establish a 'national government'. Trotsky contemptuously dismissed him the people who wanted to tie the workers to 'the rich, the lords, the establishment and their dinner parties'.
No description better fits Williams. Owen Rodgers and Jenkins.
The problem remains that most of their co-thinkers remain Roy Hattersley, presently leading the Labour Solidarity Campaign, agrees with the Gang of KOUT detail of policy.
His avowed intention is to start a massive fightDalk azallisi cell l both the constituencies unions ty is only beginning. As the party conference opens in Blackpool themselves whether the "Gang of Three" this week, Labour watchers Rodgers - shouldn't have had a fourth Williams, another ex-Cabinet member. reforming Confidants of the trio tell me that Hat- memoe! • tersley, Labour's Prices Secretary under Jim• Callaghan, was somewhat miffed (in private at least) that they did not invite him to sign, their democratic group if the Left's advance® threatened to form a breakaway letter to the wasn't stopped. Indeed, Hattersley is reported to have told. Williams and Co that he would have happily! signed if they had altered an odd sentence or were wondering if the ambitious Hattersley» Aficionados of the party's manoeuvring• the Three during the conference this week by, would be declaring his public allegiance to appearing on the platform with them. Well, ' all, when Hattersley was asked to join them! likelihood did not appear too great. After at a fringe meeting at the TUC conference this month, he found his diary was rather full
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