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TONY BENN FOR DEPUTY MP for Islington North, and many of the councillors who resigned had failed to be renominated as councillors for next year's local elections.

foist their policies by fair means or foul on the Labour Party, and because of the growing sup. port for socialist policies inside the Party.

Islington is the shape of things to come Labour's right wing will use every trick in the book to sabotage the moves towards democracy and socialist policies. They are not prepared to be accountable to Labour Party members or to sup. port policies democratically decided upon by the Party conference. no doubt use the splitters to try and blackmail the Party into dropping demands for democracy and socialist policies. With 3 million unemployed and the disastrous experience of the last Labour government fresh in their minds working people are not likely to heed Healey's appeal. They defected because they could no longer Labour's right wing leader, Denis Healey, will The truth is that on the right wing of the Paragree politically with the SDP. For them, staying in the Labour Party is just a tactic to push through their 'moderate' pro-capitalist views. be prepared to co-exist with a Labour Party dominated by the left. Those who shouted loud and long about 'unity' during the days of rightleft looks like winning ot this world can't stomach.

aspirations of the labour movement.

without the right wing if necessary. ty, particularly in Parliament, there are many who But everyone knows that these people will not wing control are only too ready to bolt when the Tony Benn said last week that Thatcher fights hard for her class, so Labour should fight hard for its class. That's what the Healeys and Hattersleys Labour activists should refuse to bow down to blackmail from splitters and potential splitters. If the right wing want to stay in the party they have to recognise that they have no god-given right to high office or to veto the democratic and socialist Those aspirations must be carried through - TONY

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