received in the run-up to the POTTER. comment on the state of und The remarks a in Middlesbrough. The Labour councillor who rentescotco tne ward In ine past did not attend enough council meetings to remain in words with the rightin right-wing clique that runs the, Labour Group get short shrift.
week, counciliors were expelled from the Group for daring to vote against a pleasure jaunt to British Columbia to commemorate the town's most famous Middlesbrough is in the heart of Poulson country. The large local shopping centre stands as a tombstone 1o his memory. Unlike Tyneside, however, no charges against local dignatories. MONEY being collecto "WE DON'T vote socialist. We vote Labour. That vote for a was the response one Socialist Unity canvasser Ayresome Ward by-election in Teesside on March 9, reports STEVE Poulson nevet did the repairs on the Whinneybanks Estate — SECURIES Thar would Bether than sinkies. Houses benefitted working with no gardens, windows, wrecked fences and gates bear testimony to decades of neglect by council bureaucrats.
Party do Notoriously dominated by a right wing "catholic mafia', the response of the local Labour Party leader, Shopland, so the decision of the Labour Party BALA abortion on demand was: It wasn't my party that decided it' The working Tyneside vote Labour because of their hatred of the bosses and the Tory Party. I'm afraid I'd standing for Labour, lad' wa one response to a Socialist Unity canvasser last week. But the interests of the working priorities of Labour's representatives once they close the have Town Hall door behind them.
Dely the candidate, Alan Theasby, has smashed declared that nothing to do with the secrecy of council committee rooms. If elected, he will call regular mass meetings of the local workers' The crimes of the Labour organisations and community groups to report on what is going on inside the council and put his policies before the meeting. when it comes to the trade TELE union bureaucrats on Teeside The local featured a prominent advertisement troth the people of condemning the handling of a pey dispute by their full-time official.
Redundancies acgotiated by than the nine per one man in Socialist Unity they will try will have Front.
local anti-fascist the Front has kept tremblins story doesn't change anti-fascist recently clutching behind his back. electricians ap unemployment even highe present. In nearby Hartlepool campaign.
All this fuels the frustration and anger of local people.
stick betrayals anything Alternative' maintain living standards, For some that will mean Socialist Unity: for others, the National Since the successful counterJenfleting in the ward by the contittee Ita bead down. Only one NFer stood witb outside his run-down counci speakers house to defeod his patch committee, rounders" club Only one campaign is getting any press coverage, and that is Socialist Unity. This is hardly surprising since only Socialist TRON FASCIST lesder Webeter In Illord han fetching in the votes. Tw public abectiogs wit be held in the ward in the finn] week of the The first, in the heart of the large council estate, will hear Alan Theasby on The Socialist The meetine, an 8 March, will b beid in the part of the ward which is bome to the tow Asiar families that have become the butt of the NF campaign.
Entitled Workers United Against Racism and Fascism speaker meeting will be Tarig Ali. Other presentative from the anti WEL committee president of the local pol technic students union, which is presently fighting the racist quotasystem that will mean the expulsion of scores af overseas On March 9, Ayresome will AL1. lenge
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support for real socialist policies for Middlesbrough: for the desperately needed figh back against Labour's cabal al the town hall, and a shot in the arm for workers" denDeral A vote for Labour will mean that once more the workers of Middlesbrough have assigned their interets to the never opened "pending file Shopland and his bureaucracy.
MIDDLESBROUGH
PUBLIC MEETINGS hetrayale A Spenlist Allernalive:
ALA THEASBY. Socialist Candidate for Ayresome 2 March. 7.30pm at S Matthew's Church Hall (corne of Acklam Road and Whinney banks Road). -Workers Unite Against RacIse and Fascism' Speakers include: TARIO ChalALAN THEASBY. Soc alist Unity-candidate, LEWIS DAVIES. President, Teeside Poly Students' Union (personal MARTIN HAN SELL Committee, Invited: Communist Party and candidates for Ayresome Ward, 8 March, 7.30pm Main Hull Newpor: Road Junice School (Greta Street near bus depot)
Socialist Unity Benefl Saturday, 4 March, at RAOB Club. woodlands Road, 7.30pm.
Disco Late bar, Raffles. Admission 40p.