If you would like to be put in touch with Socialist Challenge supporters in your area or would like more information fill in the form Send to: Socialist Challenge, PO Box election, the right wing can Cabinet. But simply extract concession after concession, splinter the left, demoralise the left's support, and destroy its gains.
The error is obvious. Benn argues that if the lef fights, it will be saddled with responsibility defeat at the general election. But we argue that the win the next Healey electoral disaster. He wants to ditch NEW BADGE! 20p each Orders over 10 post free Orders over zu — op cact Orders over 50 - 12p each Cheques payable to Labour History Grou Serato:
Southwark SC Badge, PO Box 50, London NI. ment would re-nationalise The Post Office Engineering Union leadership had described the one day strike as non-political. But Tony Benn was adamant that it was political. What was involved was a choice as to which government should be in office -the Tories concerned Labour concerned about public need ensure that this was the real choice, he appealed to the audience to make La nur Conference deal- their business that nationalisation included in Just so. In the POEU the Broad Left has fought for Labour Party business and affairs to be accountable to the membership - just as we would like POEU policy to be cast inside th ADOLETTE Benn ended by asking: What had gone wrong? Why were the gains of th public services being reversed? He pointed to three reasons: We forgot to support each other; we forgot our struggle - 330 if you stop struggling your rights will be taken away and we had not used our socialist imagination"
The example he gave was the mimicking of AT A MASS rally of Telecom workers on their day of strike action last week, Tony Benn expressed his confidence that a Labour governposts and telecommunications privatised by the Tories. private firms by the nationalised industries going further and developing new forms of control.
But what he failed to explain was the role leadersmiD in this. Rank and file workers have wanted to support cach other, have wanted to keep struggling, have wanted to 112110031020 dustrics something different than private, profitmotivated companies and begun implement workers control.
Many rank and file workers leaders are look ing to Tony Benn because they realise the need for a new leadership. They do not want a government o the Callaghan-type which scabbed on the 'winter of discontent. They Benn someone who prepared to he accountable to their demands.
Socialist Challenge supporters agree with this Themselves righting in the sentiment and POEU for an accountable leadership Brian Golding who are unac2180 support witch-hunts in the Labour HANDS OFF TELEPHONES!
• Build a national ALAN FREEMAN and BRIAN HERON from the steering committee of the 30 October conference against the witchhunt, explain the committee's propoals and what it is hoped the conference will do AS WORKERS in the pits, steel, post office, water, and health shape up against Thatcher, and as her attacks on working people mount, Michael Foot and Dennis Healey are settling in for a happy winter discussing an issue dear to the heart of every unemployed person in Britain purging the the witch-hunt is winter won't be a cosy one.
With one week to go, credential applications had been received over seventy constituencies and are coming in thes are now sponsor are now sponsoring including Tony Dennis Skinner Audrey Joan socialists. But the response to the 30 October conference against anything to go by. their Wing the conference, and Militant will be sending a speaker.
The steering committee are to make two main recomendations:
1. To establish a national organisation, are disafiliated A series of further proposals, including regional PST80158 local support, a newsletter and a lobby of the NEC on November 27, are put forward in a discussion documCLI SUCCTITE committee for guidance to delegates. It is also proposed to change the name to *Labour against Witch-hunt to reflect the involvement trade unions and other affiliated proposals essence, an organised, national campaign to stop the witch-hunt.
The NEC is determined to go ahead with expulsions, and will do so unless the resistance to them co-ordinated and organisThe vast majority of unionists do not want this The NEC will succeed only if they carry through CHISORS without a fuss. If they have to disaffiliate twenty or thirty CLPs they will fall to a sustained campaign to remove the right leaders responsible for the chaos Can such a battle be PEACE and councillors. right wing want to drop nuclear disarmament. We want to win the next slection.
fringe meetings, resolutions to annual conForty seven percent of the population, in the latest opinion poll, want to be rid of American bases. The
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