IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Gerry Hedley

Red Weekly No. 81, 19 December 1974 · p. 2 of the scan · 545 words

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making body with powers over the Executive, This provision has ensured some measure of control for the activists over the direction of the campaign,and led, for example, to the important decision by the CSC to support the 5 May dempnstration despite the Executive's ear her refusal to back it.

seyside CSC re-affirming this pos ition was passed, despite vigorous protests by the CP, who wish to see all power concentrated in the hands of the Executive.

other things called for the pages of the Campaign's paper, Chile Fights to reflect the debate taking place amongst the Chilean working class organisations on the way forward in Chile was also passed. This was another defeat for the CP, who have done their best to stifle all such political discussions, Indeed, all in all it was rather a bad day for the Communist Party. The strain finally told when CSC Chairman and prominent CP member, George Anthony, made an open attack on the official Lab our Party delegate for having dared to vote against the platform.

further when Monday's Morning Star, in true Stalinist fashion, simply omitted to mention the Conference.

er rapidly thrown out of the window if the Labour Party votes with the revolutionaries!

organisations are very useful to th A motion from the strong MerEarlier, a resolution which among 359 0056). is his agent).

This attitude was carried a step Fast It seems that "left unity" is rathThe four militants arrested on 15 November in the bourse of a picket of lilington estate agents Prebbies, Just after the High Court had ruled that such pickets were 'illogal.' Two were fined for obstruction and the cases against the other two were dismissed. The magt: trate, unlike the High Court, did not comment on the "illegality of the picket.

Their arrest and the attack on the right to picket led to a mass demonstration outsid Probbles office on 7 December. Out of this a committee for a united campaign to defen he right to picket is being sat up, along with a trade unior peculation. [For information contact 17 Cloudesley 5t., London, N.1. phone: San Further opposition is now emerging inside and outside the Nottingham East Constituency Labour Party to the burcuucratic control exerted by the "Dunnett/Carrell machine' (Jack Dunnett is the local MP, and Carroll Earlier this year a writ was issued against the chairman of Lenton Ward Labour Party for certain remarks made by him at a private Labour Party mecting. Then another activist, Dieter Peetz, was expelled for organ Ising a meeting at which Eddie Milne (then Independent Labour MP for Blyth) spoke on the corruption inside the Labour Party in the NorthNow the pro-machine chairinan and secretary of the Market Ward inquiry into housing and of a 140,000 sg.ft, office block by a private developer on a Corporation owned sate, at a time when there is already surplus office space in Nottingham and a massive housing shortage.

Various ward Labour Parties, the Trades Council, a UCATT hranel and thé Tenants and Reaidents Association were among those bodies which came our against the plan, and a Theatre Point Action Committer" was set up to co-ordinate the opposition under the slogan of "Build Homes Not Offices'. Now the Council have announced that FIGHT

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