Queens Park turnout will be down.
reason why Labour's vote will be affected major row has erupted over council plans to sell the empty Hutchinsontown "E' scheme to develoners Labour candidate Helen McElhone demolished and rebuilt.
But it doesn't do much for party credibility when it's à Labour council she is opposing.
There also cynicism about her selecTWO THINGS are certain about the Glasgow by-election this Thursday December: Labour will win by a mile but the Queens Park includes the old Gorbals area and housing remains a major issue. That is one tion as Labour candidate after the death of the sitting MP who was her husband Frank. Although she TOTECT closely with him, her political inexperience casy tool the party Thus the campaign is in many wavs a model o the way the like to see a general election run. Tony Benn is invited to maintain a left image but his meeting is right at the start of her campaign little publicity, the key ssues of nuclear weapons MicElhone's public meetings have been for the multilateralist and unilateralist sections of the they agree on.
An interesting sidelight on local working class opi1L.U.. slashing attack she delivered at every meeting on the needless' Falklands war. This is always well received by her audience. although invited platform speakers are usually less - served by enthusiastic.
McElhone has also COme with a strong anti-abortion position. While Queens Park is predominantly Catholic constituency the signs that both she and SN candidate Peter Mallan hard-line abortionist) have misread the feelings of even many Catholic women who supBut despite this the But despite this, opposition to McElhone is hardly serious. The SNP are very well organised but their candidate is better known as a smeer Loan g politician. Their image is Tartanry CHEC bagpipes rather than real ES ON:
FOLLOWING the passing motions at the annual ference, the National Executive of Palestine The NEC contradicts this, putting an equal sign Palestinians and Israelis by demanding that they both withdraw the Lebanon.
YY LICIO. we may ask, are the Palestinians supposed to so wave been erupee since 1948? And does the NEC realise that reason the Sabre and Shatillia massacres WCIC possible was that the Harris Palestinian guerrillas had The NEC also recogPhoto John nises the right of Israci in its present form to exist, more me racial macare Israeli state and its suppression of the rights of Palestinians living solutions to the problems Tor working people.
The "Scottish independence will solve everything line reached a logical if bizarre conclu when Mallan refused 3.Ul? to declare himself unilateralist, saying he just wanted nuclear weapons outside of Scotland. Will stop at the border Alliance candidate Graham Watson Is Stan ding mainly, to keep the power of the bosses SDP/Liberal flag annough nobins tor some middle class support in the sourn or ine constuency Tory Jackson Carlaw has quarters there and seems London demonstration against the invasion of the Lebanon of pro-Palestinian conCommittee issued a press statement reaffirming its policy on the Middle East. The conference motions supported the right of Palestinians to self-determination and recognised the PLO as their legitimate representative, committed the party to the setting up of a democratic, secular state and demanded the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon with an international enquiry into their war crimes.
within its borders.
This new development emphasises the importance of building the Labour Committee on Palestine which was set on a firm fooling at its new steering committee meeting SaturBUT COCOC The LCP is open lo anyone that wants to de fend and ensure the imof Labour Party policy. It is issuing a press statement condemning the NEC's action and is writing to Constituency Labour Parties ask them to pass resolutions doing the same.
The steering committee also decided 10 meetings at trade union to be trying to outhatcher Thatcher Communist Party candidate John Kay is heading for his sixth lost deposit since 1969 Although he can point his finger at Labour's record, his ap proach is essentially the same, massive expansion of the economy with imdoubt the fall-out port controls and an inprivate investment. All without fundamentally challenging the clection has been the CNI COOLED LOCOMMERL candidates to oppose nuclcar weapons. A leatler calling for 'no Trident, no Cruise. 1310 US Dascs conterences, to launch a labour HUNCHCH.
drive for the Palestinian Red Crescent, to organise a delegation of councillors and trade unionists to visit areas occupied by israel, and to produce films and to USC labour movement meetines. it restlirmed is commitment to building branches of the campaign.
The NEC shows the difficulties in building labour movement solidarity with the Palestinians. It involves a fight not only against the labour right but also against some known left-wingers For instance, MP Frank Ana recency WHATCH his sponsorship of a pro-Palestinian meeting Manchester agreed with the NEC posi tion In this light it is a great shame that Socialist Organiser supporters and some other activists decid ed to pull out of the LCP and set up an alternative committee. believe that they could easily work within the LCP which has jobs not bombs" is being every houschold in the constiuency from a temporar local headquarters with showings of the War Game hav VICCULIS been held in local communities and a march organised through -the constituency (with support the Labour and Communist Parties) and a forum for the candidates was to take place on Tuesday.
But the overall atmosphere is still low-key. Queens Park itself is due to disappear as a constituency at the next General Election. Few are likely to notice the difference La clear anti-Zionist platAlthough the founding conference of the LCP was dominated by one political tendency, this is definitely ot the case with the no teering committee whi has now passed a pro cedure for clarifying the membership of the campaign.
Socialist Organiser's prescht course will only OWNECE STEEL play into the hands of bot Zionists and the right-win; Labour Party. The LCP witch-hunters has invited the alternative committee to fuse with it LITE SCHE HEWL representatives with full speaking rights to is steering committee. We appeal to supcommittee to accept the in vitation to join with us in the urgent task of building labour movement solidari ty with the Palestinians.
For information contact the LCP c/o PO Box 50, London