does resign later this year, the NEC may seek to impose a candidate or offer the party a short list which does not include my name.
feel this would disastrous for the local son would set have thre would not have the contidence ot Bermondsey members.
Without this we don't see how an effective and vigorous campaign could be conducted When we've been canvass ing local people have said that they thought Tatchel ana une local party were OK But condemned and Michael Foot's left winger so this Tatchell bloke must be a real extremist.
There is no doubt that the attitude of the NEC and Michael Hoot done the local party a lot of damage. hand it will be confronting the Greater London Council, tive Labour councillors plement the following policies:
1. Defend the jobs, services, and living standards people of London. wil TETSE cut Council provisions no matter what the pressure: and threats.
2. Do not recognise the right of the District Auditor to fix the Piro tes dem rical democratically determined at the aaRo. box. The District Auditor's directives will be defied except to the extent that they Cucc l vestigations into corruption or similar matters. 3. Where threats of legal action - including surcadiee are made annonce in advance that we will not tolerate these as reasons for abandoning malli coll kutlililll" ments; instead we will as Icessal y. defy only the rulings of the Distric Auditor but also the whole undemocratic system rule by unelected judges.
4. While the GLC and the ILA have been isolatec and forced to retreat on a • TULLIOCI ot Issues. wesct Labour victories in May as hulporlalli Micahs providing added strength to these bodies in resisting pressures from the Tory the judges auverlllicul and the establishment.
5. We will not tolerate present levels of racial harassLOCAL ELECTIONS are with us once again. In London, all Borough councils are up for grabs. It will be a crucial test for Labour. On the one Liberal/SDP Alliance. On the other, the experiences of the elected on a left manifesto one year ago, raises many issues for future Labour councils. A number of prospecfor the London tive methods of policing our own communities, acting on demands made by ethnic minority, WO mens dents, , and working class organisations throughout the capital.
6. We are fighting for vic tory in the May elections in order to strike blow Tory govern ment, whose rule we ain to end We will seek to unite Labour local autho. rities and the trade union MOVC ICH , lll a lllass calli paign to bring down this vet lcdt and the system it represents at the earliest possible opportunity.
7. We will support moves to establish an 'Association of Socialist Councils in London', to co-ordinate action for the above policies.
8. Finally we see our victory London order ICcsoal secure for a future socialist Labour government some part of that base of strength and alternative machinery of democratic rule which it will need in order to defend itself and carry through programme to the full, in op position to the forces of ine establisment and unt
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ON THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SDP
Borough elections have pledged themselves, on taking office, to do all in their power to im-