Waterworkers must decide! Bill Baxter from New Riverhead, North London leaves union negotiator Ron Keating of NUPE in Socialist on strike and we've got to vote on any deal. We're having no sell out 'We voted to come out Last week's Sunday papers carried stories of a right-wing plot to remove Foot from the leadership of the Labour Party. These could not have come at a better time to damage Labour's by-election campaign in Bermondsey.
It is quite possible they were released for just that purpose. But it would in no way be uncharacteristic for the right to be ing such a plot. After all they plotted to turn the register agreed to at last vears Labour Party conference into a green light for witch-hunts and expulsions They are openly plotting to drop Conference's radica policies from the HE SHCSLO They plotted to use Foot's period of leadership not to bridge the gap between the right and left, but to launch a campaign to crush the left.
Now if they succeed in these objectives they are quite capable of plotting to ditch Foot in favour of a COTSISTCNI represcutalive So the coming weeks will be critical for the left The right-wing nave usec every peace treaty to prepare a new stab in the back.
Foot has fashioned the noose by which the right plotting to hang him are If the left equivocate new defeats are inevitable. 1t a fight launched now in defence SOCCES policies and against expulsions the right can be stopped Labour's vote did not collapse when it was leading mass demonstraLUIS against unemployment. It collapsed when Foot tagged along behind Thatcher SDP Healy ir the Falklands war Votes lost to Tatchell in Bermondsey are not the result of radical policies but the result of the witchhunt, endorsed by Foot, organised by the rightwing and whipped up into a smear campaign by the
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