to clear the decks for a fight. As a start, that means Tony Benn as deputy leader of the Labour Party. That process can then be taken right through the Labour Party and the unions, on the shoulders discontent'. We need armageddon.
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Socialist Challenge 17 September 1981 Page 2 The workers movement now needs don't need another 'winter of Rise This rate totalled almost £3 a week for an average working class household.
Following week's successes the SDP have tabled motion meeting that the local supplementary Tale dropped. Ironically then announced that the council will not be penalised by £2m, so the local supplement was unnecessary ally way Labour councillors are now left with the choice of dropping the rate rise with the SDF claiming the credit, or holding on to the money even though it isn't needed which would also drum "The support for the Labour left strategy of rate rises has impossible 'no-win situation'. Drop Socialist Challenge DUDUVILES in Islington Labour Party have argued against rate rises, and for linking the dropping of the supplementary Tale La commitment to no further rate rises next year It is an indictment of the rate rise strategy lnal ll has allowed the Islington SDP splitters to appear as champions of the people's interests.
the Sunday rol as Times admitted weekend the defection to o Halloran; MP, Mid six. the SDP Michael teen experienced Labour COULCIU mixed blessing for the SDP.
O'Halloran's parliamentary career began in shady circumstance: in 1969 in Islington North He won Labour's nomination least votes delegates who were ineligible to vote False addresses, bogus union delegates and . the ferrying specially recruited old age pensioners to vote at crucial meetings remained O'Halloran's stock-in-trade to retain his power base The Islington North Party was suspended for MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1981 months in the late 1970s after expelled Keith Veness for criticising O'Halloran in loca and reinstate him despite a nanonal execuuve ruling Una the expulsion was unconstitutional.
The rest of the local Labour Party had its pro blems too. Tyrant of th local Council Bayliss ounce that the by announcing that the East Islington Labour Party was 'full up', and could This blatant method of This grip was too much for the national executive who sent Bob Mellish, no left winger, to sort bavliss out.
The defectors to the SDP have run the council as a private clique for years, just as O'Halloran private fiefdom Labour left have rightly been organising for years to remove these enemies of the working class from office.
This struggle has spilled over into a struggle to remove the other two right wing Islington MPs George Cunningham and John Grant. Both face a real possibility of removal through reselection might have thought that the SDP had already scraped the bottom of the barbious enting these dubious ington defectors. But no their latest ploy is to try and create a witch hunt Party against the left.
So-called International Marxist Group infiltrators are blamed for the Labour Party's move it alleged rinklean es alleged ringleader The SDP have enlisted that well-known labour movement newspaper, the Daily Mail to lead the But the events of the last week in Islington show who the real infiltrators are It is the SDP and their right wing allies in the Labour Party who have in filtrated the Party, and who use it solely to win positions power and further their careers. They are te ones whose policie. have nothing in commor WILD labour movement Socialist Challenge supporters are a growing force within the Islington and national Labour ParThat's because we're rely the Labour Party Labour and to win it to socialist policies The best way to defend the party against the ravages of the SDP is to continue the fight for such policies and for the Party to firmly oppose bans anc proscriptions.
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