ACTiON tion which Joan Maynard- has taught us 'Whose side LUI are you on?' Strength It arises around Liverpool and Lambeth as well, the other strength. One half of our strength is the trade union cara and tne orner nall 15 le right to a ballot pap he abolition of the GL the rate-capping of coun cils, and bankruptcy LUC disqualification of coun cillors is an attack on the central principle democratic Then we hear tonight of what has happened in Brixton.
no wonder wonder the Handsworth riots occurred the day they announced that Ted Knight, Hamilton others Liverpool and Lambeth would be surcharged.
Future We should be talking now much more about the The luture 1s future that the miners, the Greenham Common women, the councillors told us is in our power to shape. As you know I have the great honour to represent a mining area and what I saw there during the — e o c tion groups, the women drainst bit closures the mining communities -was a whole mass of people discovering ; that they were a hundred times capable as society had ever allowed them to believe. Peopie realise now that we don't need to be governed in the traditional way. We can govern ourselves.
I am 60 and I intend in the remainder of my active life of Ireland, to see us out of the Falklands, to see us out of Gibralter, to see us out of Hong Kong and to see the American forces, all of them, out of Britain. This ul about maurasu It's about self-government and democracy. We wan the right to govern Britain Not just the vote once every five years, but the right to control the economic power which is the wealth created by those who work. And that is why we must look beyond the idea that we are only permitted put few workers the board which is all that Labour Muses de Transform Our task transform and it wouldn't be anything like as difficult as we told would be. If we are to rise to that task that history Inland 6 months £8:
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Address Please send me as special offer has placed on our shoulders, comrades, we've got to change the Labour Party too.
We musl nave a re founding of the Labour Party. It's not for me as a man to talk about demands of women although they are made insistently. But are not a representative party. If we had a founding conference now as in 1918, the balance betweer wholly different. It must different. be different. The black secnons, to lake an exampie is only a tiny incursion into tures work. Ve must r found the Labour Party on the broadest posssible basis — open, democratic, accountable internationalist, and socialist too. Lesson Just to finish. If there's one lesson to be learned, it's that hope our I enclose cheque/PO payable to Socialist Action for £ .. Send to: Socialist Action Subs, PO Box 50, London NI 2X+ greatest ally Fear say to people there will be paralyses us. When a nuclear war, there will be radiation, there will be a winter, frighten people into inactivity.
Our strength lies in awakening the hopes tha were awakened in 1945, o putting to bed the fears that led to the growth of fascism and the return of Thatcherism. It's a hope Tuture vision ang an ab.
solute determination to stick by d women, ensh men women, black. gay, miners.
railwaymen, teachers that is the way our move ment will recover its sense of direction.
Then you won't have a hung parhament.
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