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THE FUGITIVE peer, Lord ington is alive after all came Carrington, has been found after months of rumour and alive and well and living in counter-rumour. The peer's Maid-to Caland_ - 1 The Editor, Writeback, S.O.

I wish to reply to Mr. Atwell's letter in Socialist OIganiser, August 26.

As a socialist, I find Mr. Atwell's attitude regarding the Kray twins puzzling to say the least.

How does Mr. Atwell expect socialists to give the Kray twins unconditional support? He cannot be serious.

It's one thing to feel sorry for some unfortunate who through circumstances may turn to crime to feed his family or make a living.

But does Mr. Atwell really think that organisations like the Mafia, local or worldwide, are something sympathetic to socialism? Of course not.

The Krays and highly organised crime are not some kind of modern Robin Hoods who will aid the poor underpriveleged, they are no friends of socialism, and just because one or both of the Krays were gay doesn't alter the fact that they committed some awful crimes and to We invite readers to send us their letters, up to a usual maximum length of 400 words. Send to Socialist Organiser, c/o 28, Middle Lane. London N8. suggest that they were an oppressed minority is a red herring to say the least.

There is nothing revolutionary about highly organised crime or criminals.

What did the mafia or groups like that ever do for the working class?

There is a vast difference between people or groups who commit crimes of violence for political ends and people like the Krays whose motive was solely financial gain or personal pleasure.

I would suggest that Mr. Atwell is mistaken when he suggests we should support the Krays unconditionally.

Having said that, however, I would concede that there are people in prison who should not be there, and there are probably peopie in both Houses of Parliament who should be in prison.

As socialists we should support justice and fight injustice. The Krays were not put in prison for political reasons and I have very little sympathy for them.

Pat Byrne THE first steps are being taken to organise the socialists on Councils throughout London, at a conference due to take place in London on October Following the successes of the "Target 82' campaign to ensure that serious socialists were selected as candidates in last May's London Borough elections, and the success of a reasonably large number of these candidates in many parts of London, we have to think about taking the next steps to ensure that socialist councillors make the best of the opportunities their elected positions give them.

This means sharing ideas and experiences, and it means finding a common political basis from which to fight, which is adaptable to a wide variety of conditions. The problems faced by a left wing Council like Islington are not the same as those faced by a left minority within a right wing Labour Council, and those suffering under Tory majorities are in a different position again.

The London Labour Briefing magazine issued a basic policy statement before the May elections, and collected a large number of candidates' agreement to it. Shortly after the election they called a meeting to talk about setting up an Association of Socialist Councillors, which in turn established an Organising Committee, which was given the job of setting up a formal founding conference and drafting the basic political and organisational documents of the association.

A shortened version of tee's draft statement of principles was printed in last week's Socialist Organiser. It is intended to be a basis on which socialist councillors can fight together and avoid unproductive disagreements.

it seeks to bring togethe in one body all those whe intend to refuse to make cuts in services, and it seeks to spell out all the consequences of such a refusal so that serious campaign planning can be carried out together.

All Labour Councillors in London are being invited to attend the conference on October 9, and GMC's are also being invited to affiliate to the Association.

Party members. who worked to get Target 82 candidates selected and elected should now work to commit both their councillors and their GMC's to the positions in the Draft statement, so that the Association can begin to play its proper part in organising. the struggle against the cuts throughout London.

John Plant bIllal.

Months after he vanished charged with complicity in the murder of hundreds of British and Argentine youth, Lord Carrington has been discovered running a modest multinational manufacturing company - GEC.

The small income he takes from this business, thought to be not more than a paltry £60,000 a year, has helped to restore Carrington to his former life as an inveterate company director.

Before his elevation to Foreign Secretary and subsequent disgrace, Carrington held directorships in five multinational companies, including Rio Tinto Zinc, Barclays Bank, and CadburySchweppes. He would be known to sit up far into the night gambling his directorships with his friends.

The discovery that Carrirenas put it about tnat ne was dead, having jumped without a parachute into the Falklands, stricken by what he called a humiliating affront"

But that was a story put about to throw police and the public off his scent.

The first reliable sighting came a month or so ago when Carrington was seen in the company of another international fugitive from justice. Henry Kissinger -known as Mr Biggsie.

After this sighting, Carrington sat back out of the news. Friends said it was a false alarm, and put the rumours down to a Carrington look-alike.

But now we have definite proof. The man running GEC is none other than Carrington himself. He was able to hide himself among the tAD DAILY W.T TARI 49, 616517 145,000 (but declining) labour force and the 150 separate factories.

Yesterday the man in charge said he was not Lord Carrington, and had never heard ot him. But his secretary was still calling him 'Minister'.

Moreover, a secret phone conversation tape in our possession shows that the man was rung last week by Norman Tebbit, asking if he could find a use for about one million unemployed youth' to replace his entire labour force.

Tebbit's proposal was that the youth - whom he referred to as riff-raff -would manufacture electronics and defence equipment as well as electric kettles in exchange for luncheon vouchers and free membership of the Young Conservatives.

When he encountered some mild resistance to his Carrington figure that te idea, Tebbit warned the would 'blow the gaff' on his alias.

Confusion reigned last night over the role of the SAS. Mrs Thatcher said she had no comment on reports that the …elite homicidal squad had kidnapped her former Foreign Secretary and were using him to test Britain's version of the Exocet.

Asked if she thought it was right that an internationally acknowledged criminal, hunted in 34 countries, should be secretly running Britain's largest manufacturing industry, Mrs Thatcher said Sir Michael Edwardes could answer for himself. by testing the drugs on cancer. cells from their body.

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