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for a Labour The Socialists for a Labour Victory campaign, launched last month, has now done its first mailing to Constituency Labour A letter from campaign secretaries Mandy Moore and Andy Harris calls on CLPs to affiliate, and says that SLV will be pub lishing leaflets for CLPs to use in campaigning.

SLV will also produce suggestions for election activity, and try to help link the Labour Party with struggles like Greenham Common and protests like the People's March for Jobs. And it is preparing a statement for MPs and Labour candidates to sign, committing them against any Latour/Alliance coalition.

Affiliation to SLV is open not only to CLPs but also to trade union bodies, Labour Party women's sections, etc. It costs £5 'Socialists for a Labour Victory' will be producing its first campaign leaflet this week - on incomes policy.

Details for bulk orders can be obtained from the SLV trade union committee (c/o Wendy Mustill or Jeremy Short, at 01928 7507, days), or from the central SLV address at c/o 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

Other leaflets are in preparation on nationality and immigration and on the Bomb.

But if Thatcher does go for a June election, then Labour activists who rely exclusively on the national machinery of the SLV for election literature will find Parties. for organisations, £3 for individuals.

Affiliations to, or copies of the mailing Lane, London N8.

time to • Unilateral nuclear disarmament and removal of all nuclear bases in Britain • Nationalise the top 25 companies, return social spending to 1977 levels in rear terms. 35 hour week, withdrawal from the EEC, expansion of NHS, education, house-building. Renationalisation with compensation only on grounds of proven need and without gain to the recipients • No incomes policy. Repeal of Tory anti-union laws • Women's rights, including the right to control their own fertility • Repeal the Nationality Act and Immigration Acts themselves with too late.

Local preparations have to start now, too. Local leaflets arguing left-wing policies can be 'syndicated' through different Labour Parties, and thus provide a supplement to national SLV material.

In some areas campaigning is beginning to get underway. In Haringey, north London, a local SLV organising meeting has been called for May 10, with spéakers including one from the tenants' association in Broadwater Farm.

Victory • Police accountability, repeal of the Police Bill • A united Ireland. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, ban plastic bullets • A socialist foreign policy supporting liberation movements abroad • No formal coalition, no informal deals. End the witch-hunt • A Labour government that carríés out Labour conference decisions.

Contact: Mandy Moore/. Andy Harris (joint secretaries), c/o 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Affiliation fee: £3 individuals, f5 organisations. a local mainly-black estate where a struggle is currently in progress against police harassment.

In the Wirral, support for the SLV has been won from Wallasey CLP, Wirral Trades Council, and the TGWU 6/88 branch. In Islington, the two new CLPs formed by boundary reorganisation have both affiliated to SLV, and their election campaign committees will be meeting soon. In Southwark, a joint meeting on election campaigning of the three CLP executives is planned.

Socialist Organiser will be running regular coverage to keep readers informed on the struggle to get Labour campaigning on left wing policies.

Send in reports on your locality to SO, 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

IN OCTOBER of last year Stan Crooke was expelled from individual membership of the Labour Party by a majority decision of Queen's Park CLP, Glasgow.

Pretext for the expulsion was that he had written an article for Socialist Organiser with the alleged intention of bringing the Labour Party into disrepute. This accusation is belied by both Stan Crooke's record in the Labour Party and also by the fact that the gist of the article can be easily verified by reference to ate and Change and Conflict by Richard and Barbara Bryant.

In December of last year the Labour Party Scottish Executive's sub-committee which heard his appeal had a two to one majority against expulsion. But when this verdict came before the right wing dominated NEC organisation sub-committee for endorsement, it was summarily overturned and the expulsion was confirmed.

When Stan Crooke wrote to the CLP to ask if it wished to stand by the expulsion he was informed that if he simply reapplied for membership,_ he would be accepted back in. Stan Crooke duly re-applied, only to find his application rejected at the April meeting of the Crosshill branch.

An ad hoc committee has now been set up to campaign for reinstatement. It appeals to branches to pass the following motion and send copies to the NEC in London:

... (1) condemns the expulsion of Stan Crooke from individual membership of the Labour Party, refuses to recognise that expulsion, and demands his immediate official reinstatement (2) demands of the NEC that it allows Stan Crooke to appeal to the 1983 Labour Party annual conference against the expulsion"

Further information from, and donations and copies of resolutions passed to: Ad Hoc Defence Committee, c/o Stan Crooke, 114 Dixon Ave, Glasgow G42. ASIGN SERPELL THE DUST BIN CLINTO DUCED SAY NO TO SERPELL