streets, bitter campaign Labour's right wing.
Labour leaders cancelled the conference and pulped the election leaflets printed on the presses of Miliequally dramatic.
five members of Militant's editorial board.
hands of the Tory mondsev to stand the candidate of their choice em. bodies the rank and file determination to leadership accountable to the party and which will carry out decisions of conference.
told Socialist Challenge reporter CAROL what he planned to do in parliament.
three weeks have gone for All the odds have been against us from the outset.
For the last 15 months, LICCSOCCE SHOT-SLOB car popular pression ba popular And mud has stuck.
Despite this, we're still showing a strong lead. The recent opinion poll results - showing the SDP only six points behind Labour just aren't mirrored in our canvasses.
nare are two things noticed the campaign.
your local issues.ne secone is Ine relative a sence nuclear among issues you've AS SOCIALIST CHALLENGE appears on the against Labour, helped by On the eve of the initial press conference the tant. It appears the end of the campaign will be On the day before polling, the National Executive Committee are likely to expel the The right wing witch-hunt plays straight into the struggle in Berhave During the last days of the by-election, candidate raised. What has you're campaion been abouti The main attack by thé opposition is to say, that Labour Party isn't a party of local people. I've focussed on local issues to undercut this argument.
The other issues I've taken up - and which I'm personany commuca defending are withdrawal from the Common Market, the need to provide more employment especially in areas like Bermondsey, and a one-year Tent Treeze wen Labour S returned to government. a lot of people still need to be convinced on the question of nuclear I ney the blitz and there's a feeling that we shouldn't he caught 've tried to counteract Meeting the electorate this view by putting the case that far from making Britain more safe, nuclear target. With cruise missiles we'll be number one target for a nuclear attack.
During the recent meeting VOU OODOSIUOT came from so-called left - the Communist Parand the Party. nac a rouen nacaltual meeting did you make of it?
I think that such oppositions are the best allies of the Tory Party. All they Party Throughout this cam paign, the opposition par ties have but forward no positive policies. Their campaigns nave been backward-looking Every single day, for the last two and a half weeks, noe where press conference outhned Labour's positive policies what we proCOOKSON Dose doing is to SOLVe LEG problems of working class people. Yet hardly a word of this has appeared in the popular press.
Photo: GM What do you think of the Labour Party's response to by-election? How sular leaflets affected your cam paign?
I don't think the decimy leaflets has helped my ULC bit. And I'm opposed to purges inside the party during the final days of the campaign, and particularly on polling day itself.
Yvnen you tinally do get to what are going to be concentrating on?
I will concentrate on the policies I've been campaigning around And I want to join the Campaign Group of MPs They're fighting the supremacy of conference policies witch-nant. believe MPs have to link the party and that's just what they're trying to do During this elec we've had to pick up pieces of years neglect by Labour's r wing Apart campaig press, the biggest fa we've fighting OCCI apathy — disillusionn about the ability Labour to improve the of working class peopl by-election shown me the importa for establishing a grou MPs who wi camp: and accountability, campaign outsid help rebuild Labo mass base working class.
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Bermondsey voters will be passing their verdict on a by-election which has grabb- ed national attention. The media have waged a