page. Derer states that the conditions do not exorganisation 'of the left'.
sought is the opportunity tor joint work where Socialist Action entirely proach and it is worth spelling out the reasons Firstly a left has as its first principle to support those in struggle. This, of applied first and foremost to the miners in their strike, but it also apolc• lo oles • Liverpool City Council in their fight with the Tories. No matter what fight has to be waged against OVeN LeSICE blunt racist, attitude to Liverpool's black Coll munity, and other issues, in the actual fight between Liverpool council and the Thatcher government the left has to be entirely on the side of Liverpool council That principle of supDOTLIC DUZAC HICAS asu support for the workers at Wapping, at Silentnight and local councils such as Haringey, Lambeth and Brent that are now coming under attack not simply from the fories but from the Labour leadership. If that means having a clash with Kinnock then too bad.
Second a left has to be based on defending party That has two crucial aspects at present.
First, the most imporlant democrauc gain lnat the left has made in the last and that is in Third, left has a For those opinterna„oRaly munity, ot the Central America other countries.
on these, formulas bring LOzCLIC backwards.
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of other the issue of reselection of MPs and will short).
enile MAr AT ITS recent annual meeting, tarianism than policies, it was a wrong decision.
Fortunately the closeness of the vote means that it is likely to be reversed a next year's meeting . Indeed, with the National Union of Public Employees, LCC's strongest region (Scotland) and Peter Hain all voting in the minority, the decision may become academic as the left in its broadest sense is brought together at all levels within party in order to support the demands of women and black sections gains made by the left over the last decade The first instance of this will come with the decision of the right wing caucus on the national executive comHELCO which har alcau decided to ignore the decision ot the recent party conference not to reopen the issue of reselection of MPs and will shortly propose so-called reforms which, under