The left must back Liverpool!

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ultra-left What Liverpool should do in the meantime -double the rates? Sack hundreds of workers? -they don't say. Many on the Left evade the issue by dismissing Liverpool's stance as a charade.

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021-449 9747 January, Mrs. wedgwood as 500D as arrangements for a meeting training centre and meet national 'Labour Briefing', last Sunday, 19th, was on Liverpool. The majority took an unequivocal stand for Liverpool, and saw this as the decisive dividing line now between those who want to organise a fight against the Tories and those who don't.

A minority, however, said: Yes, of course we support Liverpool. But this is not the "big" one. That's next year, with ratecapping and the abolition of the metropolitan authorities!

The 'real' debate is not over Liverpool, but between Livingstone and Kinnock over breaking the law. We have to be 'realistic' . Liverpool isn't going to fight.

Such was the tone of some speakers that Stuart Marshall Clarke from Mersey Labour Briefing pointed out that they seemed to be positively hoping for the defection of some Labour votes on Liverpool City Council.

Ken Livingstone's position got five votes - from London Labour Briefing editor Graham Bash and from four of the five Socialist Action people present.

US nukes

DURING the Korean war, US commander Douglas Macarthur wanted to nuke China.

That much is widely known. What has only just been revealed, in an official US army history, is that the US army drew up detailed plans for a nuclear attack on Vietnam in 1954.

The aim was to help the French colonial forces then going down to final defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

Thę nuclear attack was prevented by US top brass who considered Vietnam "a non-decisive theatre"

Woman candidate

The late Soviet President Yuri Moscow's Proletarski district by a parliamentary candidate in Motova, a 'irner in a ball-bear- woman machine - minder Nina ing factory in the constituency. Elections for the 1,500-member Supreme Soviet are sched uled for March 4.

MORNING Star, February 16:* Candidate? Election? A Russian proverb says it all: 'Paper is patient, it will let anything be written on it'.