KICK OUT THE TORIES Neil Kinnock Socialist BENN FOR Tribune Sharing a Tribune platform with Benn in happier days - now they are plotting against him Michael Foot the MPs Foot has Stan Orme.
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Field, Robert MacDonald, AT LEAST 20 'left wing' Labour MPs -egged on by party leader Michael Foot - have joined a last ditch conspiracy to stop Tony Benn becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party. the Socialist Challenge has exclusive 'divisive' and totally reliable information that - members of the Tribune Group - are organising behind closed doors to abstain in the crucial second ballot for the deputy leadership on the eve of the party conference. Michael secretly advised MPs to adopt such a course of action.
Other leading MPs behind the plot include Neil Kinnock, Joan Lestor and position.
Although these 'lefts' are pretending that all they are saying is 'don't know' in the battle between Healey and Benn, they are fully aware that, if their plot is successful, they will ensure that Healey will win the deputy The concrete evidence of these moves is a letter, being privately circulated for signature among Labour MPs, which makes clear their intenSocialist Challenge knows that at least 20 MPs normally In associated with the 'left' of the party have already signed the letter.
Likely signatures include, as well as those already mentioned, Frank Kilroy-Silk, Oonagh Norman Buchan, Andrew Bennett and Jeff Rooker.
In a further move by the 'gang of 20', Neil Kinnock, writing in the forthcoming edition of Tribune will argue deputy-leadership contest If the 20 were to abstain this will be the equivalent of 400,000 votes in the trade union section at conference. It will cancel out the support which pithead ballots of the miners' union are expected to give Benn.
Kinnock and Lestor represent constituencies which have already come out in favour of Benn. Many of the potential abstainers are in the same Kinnock and Lestor also members of national executive, and are voted onto these positions by the constituency section of the conference. This has come out in overwhelming support for Benn.
It is because they fear an angry response from conference delegates and their constituency members that the 'gang of 20' were planning to keep their moves secret until the last possible moment.
releasing the information available to us, Socialist Challenge has now made this particular part of the conspiracy impossible.
Now the real left in the Labour Party need to urgently organise against this pro-Healey plot in its entirety.
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No tears for the wets MARGARET THATCHER is preparing for unions. That's the only interpretation shuffle.
The Tory leaders is herself with those who think that now is the time to go for the kill. The temperate Jim Prior is banished to Ireland. In his place comes Norman Tebbit, popularly known as the 'skinhead of Chingford' -no offence meant to skinheads who are not associated with the far right.
all the fighting talk and resolutions of last week's TUC are so much hot air. Recent history supports such a view. Fate observed the carnage of the last two which have emanated form the rank and British Leyland and Laurence Scott are of the same ilk as his favourite Tory, Jim Prior: that he too will go quietly to a cornot in the hands of union general secretaries. As the miners and Laurence Scott take on rank and file leaders who are not as compliant as the TUC 'wets'.
ing an opposition within the Tory Party Heath, lan Gilmour and Peter Walker. In minister Gilmour spoke of the new Tory crew facing shipwreck 'on the rocks'. The rocks in question are the working class.
Thatcher is that they prefer to go for a rather than a quick stab at the jugular.
course. British capitalism is in too deep a war with the trade of Monday's cabinet resurrounding Thatcher has obviously decided that They have stabbed in the back real challenges to Thatcherism Thatcher presumes Len Murray to be Fortunately, the fate of all workers is Recognition of this reality is producThere is nothing progressive about It needs the workers to pay the Party ISLINGTON Labour triguing and unenviable choice on Friday -how to respond to a Social Democratic Party proposal to cut the rates.
After week's much-heralded defections and their council tion victory the SDP now have councillors and the Tories two will is 22 more of councilors şeriously considering joining the SDP, the Labour Party could soon lose control of the borough The issue that threatens to bring it all to a head is the The Labour council recently agreed to raise a supplementary rate of 20p in ine *. Inis was to cover the GLC fares reduction and the ILEA precept, plus a local supplementary rate to recoup Heseltine's penalties for council 'overspending'. Labour Party and carrying out vicious anti-working class policies for years councillors face an inIN the 2 DY DAVID NORRI years • since he left the Trotskyite International Group to Join the Labour Party Mick Sullivan has come a long way. tell ser The tacled telephon whom Istin borough's REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST AT CENTRE OF to the Socialist Trotskvite press once e North Islington the new ISLINGTON DEFECTION hend perdice ty the people
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