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Jeremy Corbyn is chaixperson of Hornsey CLP -the CLP which has clashed with the NEC over its decision to admit Tariq Ali as a Labour Party member. He is also prospective Labour candidate for islington North. And he is a leading figure in the Unregistered Alliance set up this week (see back page). He talked to Socialist Organplay on it.

Really we should be opposing the operation of Trade Unions for a Labour Victory because, in a sense, it has set itself up as the arbiter of trade union funding for the party and is used as a negotiating lever. We should be opposed to it and affiliations should be paid directly into the Labour Party. I think we should be calling for the disbandment of Trade Unions for a Labour Victory and for the unions to carry on with their ocialist by registering and the rest of it then they are in fact doing the work that the right wing want them to do I think they should be condemned for their attitude. The call must be for all groups to refuse to register.

Finally, what is the current state of affairs about Hornsey CLP and Tariq Ali?

The Hornsey party has voted on six separate occasions - including two GMCs - to support Ait: membership of the Labour Party and give him a card and campaign in support of his membership.

The vote to support him was in all cases by a substantial majority, often better than 2-1. The last vote was on a negative motion by the right wing and that was defeated by more than 2-1.

The position is that we support his membership and we recognise him as a member. The National Executive have informed us that they don't and we had a visit from Eric Heffer and David Hughes at which they informed us that they wanted us to reconsider thè decision and tell them our views after we had reconsidered.

They also said that they didn't wish to threaten us but neither did they wish to close down the party. Eric Heffer reminded us that he had long been on the left of the party and didn't want to do anything to stop left wing parties like Hornsey from thriving.

He was told where to go by the constituency.

On the Tariq Ali issue in general we are now fighting for more support throughout the country for the stand that we've taken. appeal fund to raise this money. Seema Waseem has had to face a plethora of problems because she is a woman, and not least because she is a Pakistani woman. Financial help cannot solve these problems, but it can go a long way to help her to fight back. All donations, however large or small, will aid this fight.

Please make cheques payable to the Waseem Family Appeal Fund, and sned them to Reg Race MP,

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