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Join LABOUR AGAINST THE WITCHHUN Membership open to Constituency Labour Parties, trade union organisations, Labour Fee. CLPs and unions £10, wards £5, individuals and other organisations £3. Write toLAW, 11 Wilderton Road, London N16. Dickinson playing a full part, including on the GC.

The Campaign Group of MPs, meeting on March 23, agreed to send a message of solidarity to these two CLPs.

The exception is Norwood, which has accepted the expul. sion of Clare Doyle and Lyn Walsh.

Although Ted Knight and the leading group in Norwood used procedure to avoid re-discussing the issue at their last GC, it will come up again when the CLP is reconstituted with the addition of a ward strongly in favour of defying expulsions. Other Labour Party organisations should send messages to Norwood urging them to close ranks with the other CLPs, and offeragenda would give the centre a soft option. • John Bulaitis, reporting from the LSCAW, made the point that the right of the expelled Militant supporters to appeal directly to conference was not automatic, and we'll have to campaign for it.

The LAW National Council also heard reports on the expulsion of 29 Manchester councillors from the council Labour Group by the NEC; the situation with the Tower Hamlets councillors and the activities of the right wing there; and the fight in Brent East to be allowed to reselect their MP.

The next meeting of the LAW National Council was fixed for Saturday May 28. Pollok Constituency Labour Party on the South side of Glasgow, has voted overwhelmingly for motion expressing no confidence in their MP, James White. The vote, by 28-9, was followed by another motion, passed by an equally large majority, asking White to resign his seat before the General Election.

After hearing reports of White's business affairs, particularly detalls of a recent, dispute concerning the car collection company of which he is managing director, Pollok GMC supported the Executive resolution against White.

This was the last meeting of the old Pollok which will now be reconstituted under the boundary changes. Despite White's defiant contempt of the local Labour Party, the fight to get rid of him and select a more suitable candidate, will undoubtedly be pursued within the new Pollok constituency.

There is strong feeling in the constituency that White must go and that the NEC will have to respect that sentiment and allow reselection to take place.

The vote is an indication of the depth of feeling within Pollok and many other constituencies that the time is ripe to rid ourselves of right wing MPs such as White, whose politics and conduct bring the Party into disrepute.

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National Union of Railwaymen MUR Socialist Organiser no.127 1983 Page

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