out the pink carpet for the promises made in the 1973 GIC street of Victorian houses await- week face such forcible evictrictions and make no apologies who profit from Labour's poli- term tenants react to the decay religious-sounding charities, like one life' housing, the victims of the of the street for 71 years, are trol, of a total of 2,000 owned election will be giving the LondLabour councillors in the GLC what's going on in London as a weeks later in his new flat. cil evades its responsibility to an alternative socialist solution Council. The International Marxist and General Workers why he is standing.
of London Labour Party's eleccity. number 170,000. One in four of all black workers are jobless.
left empty.
each week. terrible.
class policies Government. Sir Reg Goodwin, Labour leader of the GLC, makes no bones about this: "We for this".
be guaranteed as long as there is shady no real socialist armed with a programme Labour's national (even the most "left-wing' Londoners will be going to the polls on 5 May to vote for candidates to represent them on the Greater London Group running candidates for the first time in these elections.
Among them will be MICK SULLIVAN, Transport Union delegate on Trades Council and a worker at a Housing Aid Centre in his constituency of Islington North. Here he explains *Far from the claims in the title them) have proved incapable of providing the lead necessary to tion manifesto that It's Looking prevent divisions and demoralGood, the present economic and isation caused by the continuing social crisis has taken its toll in betrayals of the leaders of the unemployed workers movement.
Yorkshire Television's documentary Goodbye Longfellow The Resource Allocation Work- Road has exposed yet another ing Party has threatened to close sordid scandal arising 130 of London's 150 hospitals. Labour's GLC policies.
There are 200,000 homeless in time housing policies were under London, yet 100,000 homes are the spotlight. The furore created such exposures nas It's not surprising that one seized upon by the Tories in thousand people leave London their calls for further cuts in To them it looks spending In the face of this, Labour has Yet Labour continue to lay little to offer. Not one of the return of the Tories by pursuing elections for action and supporting the anti-working speculators and land hoarders, condemned for 35 years. Homecommodation has been kept to.
Goodbye Longfellow have done what we can within lifted a few stones. to show us the Government's financial res- some of the more sordid leeches alisation are rife.
The return of the Tories will target of the documentary was a blaming its victims - the squat- Group.
group of opposition, profiting from council capable of mobilising against housing crisis in Tower Hamlets uprooted as POnCIES. provided of whole.
will be Islington ITOU against ing demolition.
of the Labour an end to rent rises and the less people squatting in the street they discharge their nor the private sector can cater Road for them.
cies on housing. While the main and neglect racketeers ters and other homeless people. mense Longfellow Road itself is a turmoil. Up to 800 It has been tons.
municipalisation of rented ac- number 115. Neither the Council such homeless people is crimin- toms Paddy O'Connor's.
Division, turmoil and demor- Homeless Committee Older, profits *short An elderly couple, inhabitants short-life properties 'redevelopment' by the GLC. By handing them good indications of proceeds. The old man dies six over to these groups, the CounForcible evictions cause further provide for the homeless.
The response of the GLC as Rally negligent. GLC Alderman Labour's policies have aided long unusually keen to let property to Contract - especially housing around them by the Novo and Second Genesis aspects - has never been more These groups reap im- urgent.
they con- IMG hear It to the crisis." people a helps them keep down the mere 1½ million a year paid out for Bed and Breakfast charges.
All of these aspects of the "duties' to housing crisis are only sympwhich *Single An organised opposition comseems mitted to tackling the Social of its anti-social candidates in on working class a chance te - and organise around For a Labour GLC ING 5 May:
Vote Socialist (IMG)
11 May:
Strike Against Cuts ING
RED WEEKLY 17 March 1877
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