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THE LABOUR leadership contest took an instructive turn this week.

Arch right winger Frank Chapple of the EETPU poured scorn on Roy Hattersley, praiser Neil Kinnock, and said that he personally had voted Shore for leader and Kinnock for deputy.

And 'Forward Labour' " a newsletter associated with the right-wing Labour Solidarity grouping, came out for Kinnock as leader and Hattersley as deputy.

Clearly there is a good deal of mutual venom between Roy Hal tersley and his former associates who now lead the SDP -or (like Chapple) semi-covertly support it.

The SDPers see Hatteršley's policy as 'fake rightism' -windy phrases covering concessions to the Left. When Hatters. ley, trying to broaden his base in the labour movement, talks about legal sanctions against racSaccomando's outlets are mostly small cates and shops. Since these cannot be blacked by unions, as no union members work in them, consumer boycotts should be organised. This is best done by unemployed workers' centres and Labour Party Young Socialists branches organising leafletting of any shop or cafe in their area which receives supplies from • And those unionised firms known to be suppliers to Carousel need to be systematically chased up to prevent a repeat of last Saturday's blow for the strikers, by getting all supplies to the factory blacked. ism in the police force, their blood must boil!

And plenty of right-wingers see Kinnock as a good option -a man with the makings of a new Harold Wilson or Ramsey MacDonald.

It should be instructive for all those who have seen Kinnock as the 'realistic' left candidate for leader. That sort of 'realism' is another name for eutting your own throat in deference to the entrenched position of the powers-that-be.

In the Labour Party mandating meetings coming up this month, the vote should be: Heffer for leader, Meacher for deputy. Hattersley: 'fake rightism'?