Photo: JEREMY NICHOLS ABOUR PARTY FRANK FIELD, the This Friday, their membership party questioned by ecutive committee head Labour Party.
porters under attack have been behalf of the of the Birkenhead Labour Party plain their situation.' Line general . meeting the sion on the motion 'out of order'.
earlier this Many mention of the IMG.
Fi nere are Socialist Challenge parties throughout the country.
has accepted Challenge is article for the newspaper are leading this tober, advocated candidates of the Labour Party Led to be re-selected.
Field, should candidates.
ter for alineune Challenge supporters ting party policy? If the right wing agree with that, we could all be brothers and sisters tomorrow. But that is hardly likely.
Is the Tribune group an adequate form of organisation for the left in the PLP?
Whether adequate depends on what you consider to be the tasks of lett organisation the Labour Party. If you think that the task of organisation is to unite the left ir the three wings of the parthe trade unions and the the constituencies MPs, then it's important to ask what the Tribune group has been doing about it. Actually it hasn' been deed ane Tribune the group traditionally zaKe the that shouldn't get involved extra-parliamentary activities. I think that is a Socialist Challenge MP for Birkenhead, and his supporters constituency Labour Party are going on the witch-hunt trail.
supporters of Socialist Challenge are to have of the local the exof BirkenTwo of the Socialist Challenge sup'invited to attend' the executive meeting. There, a resolution will be discussed which says: 'At a public meeting of the Birkenhead Labour Party a leaflet was distributed on Marxist Group. The leaflet named two people to contact ... who we believe are members 'International Marxists are believed to have stood against Labour candidates, so we would like the two members to exThis motion was originally passed at balancackl party. There the chairperson of the party, Labour right-winger Peter Roberts, ruled any discusThe leaflet referred to in the resolution was handed out at a public meeting year at which Frank Field, Roy Hattersley and others spoke. But it was a Socialist Challenge leaflet without many DUOOUILCIS of Birkenhead Labour Party and indeed in constituency No leading body of the Labour Party that supporting Socialist incompatible membership Only week, Alex Kitson, recent chairperson of the Labour Party conference, wrote an It is ironical that it is Frank Field's allies in Birkenhead Labour Party who For Field himself, in a letter to The Times on 7 Oc. parliamentary candidates against official standing Field gave advice to any MP who failSuch MPs, wrote 'consider fighting byunder the label "sitting Labour MP', against official Labour Whether or not Field has technically broken the rules of the Labour Party bi encouraging such divisive moves is a matinterpretation, but certainly, if Birkenhead Labour Party wants to excredentials of any of its members it seems more suitable to examine those of Field rather than Socialist Fi the Tribune group wants tr in fluence events in the conand the tic unions it has to organs?
It you also die i! necessary to fight the righ wing ther that something that also has o be done by this organisation. Since the Tribune group has made this fata! mistake, then favour of a new organisation The second problem about Tribuns me membership of them are not on the left at all. Some of them voted for Denis Healey in the deputy leadership, more abstained. It's very difficult to sit down with Denis Healey supporter and discuss what the lef should do! I hope we'll be able to carry a majority of Tribune group members along with a new organisaLONE 18 November 1981