Working class. are facing massive rents c rates rises. Won't the Labour Party's profurther raise Dosals rates to pay for your programme mean a biggor cut in living stanand demoralise working class people?
The raising of rents by borougt councils pensate WI cantral ment chris table. ment has failed to unité local into cohesive force against the Sorelic.
•Much of the 1CSU1l sibility must lie TÚC and the Labour Party national executive.
deliberately coordinating national tion.
THE Labour Party's manifesto promises paign against the government.
:They said they would support local authorities in dispute with the ment, but they haven't attempted to lead that strug .The GLC is a huge local authority, so an ag gressive administration could be very effective in mobilising support throughout London in defending local governservices and campaigning against the Tories in Westminster.
local authority bureaucratic simply dummins ching services Problem Labour-controlled GLC should be providing for those strike, campaigning agnuclear weapons, creating jobs through public spending, cutting the price of school meals, publishing a campaigning newspaper, and soon. that if the implemented.
One problem is that the Labour group on the GLC has acted as élite, divorced from the labour meier, When Should be movement.
be recorded at its representatives from the party and the unions.
All candidates signed a pledge agreeing to abide by the manifesto Resistance to ployment has to be at the centre of the fight to Tories out of government. Yat the trade union merely argues the government to change course, while the alternative economic • strategy. doesn't answer the problems.
Are you in favour of a fight for the 35-hour week? How do you see a Labour GLC taking it up?
It's nonsense to think that the kind of campaign the (without TUC is running against unemployment could be successful. We've seen the approach over which nored its causes.
It's the same with unhave to be stated the of contro over capital, fact that more money is to be made by speculating than producing.
Thatcher to divide the labour movement by saying that wages cause inflation. The cambeen threatened with a surcharge on their personal So the Tories can cerchanging the rules of the that it's a game only the wealthy can win. That's a ment has to be linked to and A Labour GLC has to support the unemployed in through recreation centres, directly through trade union organisation also have to create jobs, by creating industry and suD port for workers co-operatives. and by fighting to get rid of the Tory govern ment. Unemployment cornerstone of ever Tory policy., The May isn't simply a council election. It's against the Tor) government, and if we win must palen to ge rid of the government. The GLC has to be committed to doing that in everything it does.
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Tories lose their majority on the Greater London Council on 7 May, the council will be in the forefront of a cam-
Tessa van Gelderen asked JEREMY CORBYN, a Har- ingey councillor and executive member of the London regional Labour Party, about the way he sees this being