Then we can get rid of the Fishers & co. and elect a leadership capable of cading the struggles that are looming ahead.
ERIC TOMLINSON (Nottingham)
AT a time when unit orkers of all kinds is likely to be more critical than ever, I must express extreme disappointment leading NHS militant, has played right into the hands of Fieet: Street tractionary "public opinion' which it implicitly classifying occupants of private beds in NHS.
ospitals as "rich bastards".
"Rich bastards" hardly constitutes a considering various occupants of private beds in our hospitals. These range from wealthy through comfortably off to those of ordinary means, bewildered and frightened by accounts of NHS standards of care, ho part with some portion of their avings or even seriously cut thei Ewing standard decent weatment.
hope will decent Private beds in the NHS must be pose uncompromisingly.
"humanitarian'
cannot be sidestepped by such falsification of the issue, The working class wrested from the principle of a high standard of calth-care for all, independent their means, NORTH WEST NORTH EAST MIDDLESBROUGH Socialist Challenge sales. aturday lunchlime near che lottery sland Ceveland Centre, Also arallable from Newsfare in Linthorpe Road.
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that themselves bu Scades, misguided, have done. all COOLICIE the build the Socialist welcomed the turning the the working class.
but SCEV movement bourgeoisie the of SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS Internarional publications For MIDLANDS SECU can NOTTINCHAM meets every cher Sunday. Co YORKSHIRE In Saturday mornina i HOW to relate to the Labor Party — which is what is at issue in the letters (17 May) attacking Martin Metethe Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (24 has bedevilled the revolutionary moveSome groups, such as the SWP or WRP, straightforwardly counterpose Party:
Others, Feeling impotent in the face of the stranglehold of reformism, simply that bury themselves in it - as Militant So it was a relief last July when the CIV was formed with the aim o steering between the two problems Its founding conference unanimously passed a resolution committing it to campaigas such as the ANL, NAC, UTOM, etc, by getting CLPsto actively support initiatives from these campaigns as well as taking up the issues through the structures of the Challen SCEV because hi supporters appeared to have an orientation of string outwards to participate actively in the struggles of TOILE But that resolution has since been the sCootten the marity or leadership. actively build for Carnival 2 (the ANL could do that as they had larger forcest), it didn't mobilise for the NAC trade union conference, support for the day of action on international abortion rights was a short article in Socialist Organiser.
arrangement (221 T481)- Wide range of Fourth HAMILTON supporters sell Socialist Challengr erery saturday in the Hamliton shopping centr:
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Soul-Wes Thus the fight to get Knight and Livingstone elected became Important issue in the Canvassing in Islington North, for instance, was left to the right wing despite the previous successes in the fight for democracy in this party In other constituencies supporters left their local campaigns completely to canvass for Knight and Livingstone. This played straight into the hands of the right wing. could simply argue that the left went oll because if couldn't win its politics in their party. So much for credibility.
The two letters you printed contain many inaccuracies, such as the claim UTOM "shares the reluctance to take its campaigo into the labour movement' (why then does the IMG support the International Tribunal?):
We are also told that Socialist Challenge supporters "have done nothing to build the SCLY apart from distribute a few copies of its paper Strange, then, that it is Socialist Challenge supporters on their own In fact we are presented with a accusations (particularly from the Workers Action EB) which to be more of a cover for avoiding political debate over orientation of the SCIV than any serious contribution to it.
Socialist Challenge supporters will be arguing at the forthcoming SCLV onference for an orientation tha uins the Labour Party outwards t the living struggles of the working class, and against the SCLV's present propagandist orientation reliance on certain Labour lefts. We Westminster Bank, 12.30-2.00pm 0n: 30-730y at Coney Seren College.
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Pomp on a Nazi the I WAS "Schoolkids for Stanton (12 April) disappointed to made the ComtIon identifving the music of Edward Elga with the politics of the National ront. It was not the compose dded the appalling 'Land of Ho and Glory' Pomp and Circumstance No. Indeed, Elgar himself was a pacifist. Setting the record straight on Elgar MITH EAST TONDON MEETS Sociate ChalleOn eels every fertnient (pho * Killu HEMEI HEMPSTEAD about being gay very big.
out: lesbian/gay as well as looking into reputations, London.
COLLUL they do this.
Surely MI TDU. AlL STEPHANIE THE that ISLAN who nermally words to his March of request. outside Sainstury': sapporlen noticed a few things about it: 1) It's 2) It's about covert state funding of pro-apartbeid propaganda inside and outside South Africa. 3) It has reduced central figures in the regime to lacerating each other's About two months ago it came to Two tight-lipped heavies were seen on TV, arriving here to the investimation David Owen declared that in future they should tell the UK government when Britain's links with South Africa are stronger than those of any other Imperialist country in the the Muldergate money acrually wear to anyone, a lot of it must have come here. Yet it seems that the government is happy to leave it to South Africa to sovesugate Muldergate corcuption in Britain, and that the press here B looking the other way, regarding it as a foreign scandal.
The left press should start to look into this, and should call for a public inquiry without delay.
DAVID EDMOND (London El)
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SHORT STORY ATHY put down her Tesco': carrier bag and picked up the same chance had granted—-and another drink- -and sauntered as casually as her excitement allowed to where the doctor was sitting. Surprisingly.
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