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prosecution of militants exercising their right to strike.

The success of such a project will ultimately depend on whether the coming winter, with its ravages and shortages, will be enough to whip the Polish will be working at arduous jobs with only the minimum of necessary calorie intake -and then will have to queue for hours in the snow to buy food.

Outside of wartime, it is a fantastic sight to see the 'This trade union/Labour Party branch expresses its full support for the demands of the Bolivian unions for the right to independent trade unions and full democratic liberties. It condemns the actions of General Torrelio's military regime in cutting off all supplies of basic necessities to the camps in the recent strike, and supports the call for the full withdrawal of troops from the mines.

In support of this struggle for the most basic democratic freedoms, this branch resolves to make a contribution of 2 ... to the Bolivian Workers' Solidarity Fund, to be sent immediately to Bolivia to support the campaign of the unions and aid the miners and their families' * Bolivian Workers' Solidarity Fund, 54 Studley Rd, London E7 9LX.

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Socialist Organiser no.64 December 3, 1981 Page ABOUR LABOUR ABOUR THERE are a few individuals in Bury, Lancashire, who think they have the right to dictate who should be East Ward branch's Labour candidates for the Council elections in May.

In their view democracy comes a poor second compared to their expert judgment as to what is good for the Labour Group.

They range from the editor of the Bury Times (who is in favour of a rubberstamp selection conference for his chosen candidate, the sitting member Laurie Bullas) to Laurie Bullas himself who is Labour So the Bury Times, which had intervened to give editorial support for Bullas in the safest Labour seat in Bury, can be well satisfied. The rest of us might learn that if your candidate isn't selected first time round, you can always discover undelivered notices in your pocket and have another go.

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What we did learn was to be wary of career politicians who think they have a divine right to automatic reselection for life. FrOm now saul RENATIONALISA WORKERS CONTROL DEMOCRACY & ACCOUNTABILIT FOUR CLAUSE VO NO Y TCH ROL RN LAST week Ray Davies, a councillor on MidGlamorgan County Council, was expelled from the Labour Group for consistently voting against any cuts - and thus against the Group, who want to do the Tories dirty work for them and make 1 per cent cuts across the board.

Ray Davies told us: I thought. carefully about this, as this isn't the first time I've been faced with this sort of decision.

I decided that I had to be consistent and fight for Labour Party policy, as carried at the last Party conference in Brighton.

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