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Susan Carlyle and Stephen Barbican and the Str Corbishley are two SO sup- Exchange with the ya porters standing for Labour marina at the Tower in the East End Spitalfields London to set the scene.

Susan is secretary of Tower to injury with private hor Hamlets Women's Section. building commencing SO® supporter * Graham building department (over housing in the square mile ment.

Brick Lane: the Bengali community fights back SO supporter Graham Shurety is one of the candidates standing for the Somers Town branch of the St Pancras South Labour Party. He told Socialist "I was selected to stand for the Somers Town branch because of the record built up along with other members of the Camden Labour Left against the existing Labour Council's capitulation to Heseltine's policies.

In the past two years Camden has become the highest rated borough in the country with its Council THE success the Left has charging the higgest rent rates and heating charges of any Labour controlled any I abour controlled authority.

This, • coupled with massive redundancies in the building department (over 600 out of a department of coo ant of " donatmant of 1,300 a year ago) has led to a new layer of left candidates coming forward in the election to replace the right.

I see myself as part of that left.

We have campaigned for two years against ent increases and against cuts.

We have argued that the only way forward is to fight alongside Tenants Associations and Council unions to win back the £30 million stolen from us by Heseltine.

These policies are the only way forward for the Graham Shurety Graham Shurety working class in Camden and provide a crucial lead for the people of Somers Town. people of Somers Town.

Somers Town is a closely knit community, with 99% of them aving in council housing in the square mile that lays behind St Pancras and Euston stations.

My comrade Tom Devine and I are campaigning for a policy of a rent freeze and no cuts, and have begun discussions with other labour movement leaders for mounting a campaign against Heseltine in the future.

Alongside another SO supporter who is standing in the neighbouring working class ward of St Pancras, I will be pressing for a politically coherent alternative to the pessimism and inaction of the existing right wing leadership of the council." ward in Tower Hamlets.

by Pete Wilisman pound complexes like the Barbican and the Stock Exchange with the yacht marina at the Tower of London to set the scene.

Insult can only be ad Insult can only be added to injury with private housebuilding commencing as a result of the previous T result of the previous Tory GLC selling off land GLC selling off land earmarked for council deve marked for council development.

Ronogli nearle living ' Rengali nennle livino 2. or LING A VI 3 different families to one small flat are the norm. And others can be living with as many as 8 children to a household in perilously overcrowded conditions. Homeless families, not wanting to be put in hotels or hostels, or relugees from racial harassment on white estates have taken every available room or squatted empty property.

Two young men lost their lives in a fire in Brick Lane a few weeks ago. They were members of a family the council had compulsorily purchased their home.

A borough housing committee no longer exists. The attempts to run a joint committee during the handing over period from the GLC to Tower Hamlets borough is on the point of collapse.

The SDP snipes away and attacks the previous Labour Party maladministration, but their solution comes to nothing more than some local housing offices and decentralisation of repair services.

Stephen Corbishley and Susan Carlyle have organised against the right wing council, campaigning against nursery closures and fighting in the trade unions and with the left of the Labour Party to oppose privatisation.

Stephen and Susan say in their manifestoes:

"We've got to fight back. Councillors should be in the front line of that fight. We can beat the .Tories and make the government pay back what it's taken off Tower Hamlets. If tenants, rate payers, council workers, and councillors all get together and fight - voting Labour will be part of that campaign."

The Tower Hamlets Labour Party have put out a special leaflet in Bengali pledging support against deportations and • opposing passport hospital checks in the NHS.