Witch-hunt Islington
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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LABOUR MP John Grant skyist. She is identified by
isn't saying whether he will the authors as an executive join the SDP. Grant - a SCLV' 1_-J man fry leaaing packroom man Ivi the right wing, who drafted the Better Way' document with pro incomes policy trade union leaders in 1978-9 - has already announced that he will not stand for selection in his Islington Central constituency. And in Parliament this week he launched an attack on Michael Foot for being soft on the Left.
In a letter to constituency officers, he refers to, "the lengthy article in the Times newspaper of Wednesday September 23rd" which "refers in some detail to Ms Rachel Lever, a prominent and voluble member of Islington Central Labour Party's General Management Committee"
'If the allegations are true, then it appears that Ms Lever is a leading Trotmember of 'the Trotskyist ...It seems quite extraordinary that the GMC's decisions should be directly affected by anyone with such views, though 1 am well aware that there may be others in a similar position who are also delegates. I should be grateful to know what steps are to be taken"
Keith Veness, a leading activist in their the Socialist Organiser, days when revolutionary Marxists could be scared by such smear campaigns are long past in the Islington Labour Parties. Things aren't done on a MP's sayso any more"
And we should be grateful to know what steps John Grant is taking - into the SDP, or where? porters spoke on an SO sup- of majority opposition. Joe Dorters resolution which called for a move from a defensive campaign centred on the council chambers to a fight involving the strength of the working class.
The AGM voted against any form of wage restraint under capitalism but against a guaranteed increase of wages in line with inflation.
Extra-parliamentary A resolution was passed positions on pay rights, based on the Campaign on Gay Rights supporting the Labour Party taking up a fight for gay rights.
The AGM has given the LCC a harder position in some areas, such as incomes policy and building an extraparliamentary base. But policy is developed in the class struggle and not in ballroom of a British hotel.
To build the rank and file base the LCC. needs and wants, they have got to take sides with the rank and filę in struggle.