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BRENT East know how Fulham feel. In the last minute Thatcher invaded the pitch and the National Executive Committee abandoned the game before we could beat Freeson.

The May 12 Brent Bast Labour Party GMC, wrongly in our opinion, voted to take legal advice with a view to taking the NEC to court. Most dangerous was the view put by some comrades that if Freeson were imposed they would abandon Brent East and only work in marginals.

This would allow the right wing to take over the campaign and improve their presently marginal position in the party.

At present the Freeson clique are organising their election campaigu in secret from the party. The party should take the campaign out of their hands and fight it on Brent East policies to build the party and prepare for the next round.

Brent East has stood in the front line against the witch hunt. Its democratic right to reselect its MP has been denied it by the right wing caucus on the NEC including Kinnock and Foot.

Refusing to be intimidated Brent East will go ahead with its reselection process on Wednesday 18th and will again lobby the NEC on Thursday 19 to demand that it recognise our democratically selected candidate.

In the event of Freeson being imposed local Irish groups will probably stand their own candidate. The people allowed into his little anti-party caucus are incapable of fighting the election adequately and it is possible that he could reduce his majority if not lose the seat.

This local microcosm of the defeatist and coalitionist drive of the bureaucracy shows that the fight for a Labour victory, socialist policies and democracy are inseparable. Win or lose the election we are going to be fighting much harder in a much more dangerous environment against the Tories and the bureaucracy.

ON THURSDAY May 12, following the announcement of the General Election, the POEU leadership called off the selective action in London against Whon the garage mr.

helps, social workers, have been done away with.

work, unpaid, at home.

called 'community care. 'SOCIALISTS for a Labour Victory' has now done its mailing to Constituency Labour Parties, with model leaflets arguing Labour conference policies on youth (reproduced, right), on the Bomb, on racism, and on Ireland. Other model leaflets are available to CLPs who want to fight the election by arguing socialist policies, instead of the Foot-Healey approach of fudging all the issues. The London Labour Party has leaflets on racism (SO last week), women's rights (excerpts above), etc.

There are also local leaflets, like the draft on jobs reproduced on the right. And leaflets from CND, from the Campaign against the Police Bill (top right), etc. can be used to argue issues without counting against election expenses.

Peoples for jobs SOON AI -e-ela marl closes, who leaves work to look tomsmates dive extra haip to one-parsat tamiles. Improve support for familles with chüldren and disabled demandonke Make sure that every local authortty provides nursery edacation for all pre-school children Expand socal services for the elderly, the sick and the cirabled.

As a major employer, aive a load for equality at mork, in training aud promotion.:

Strengthen the Iqual Pay and Sex DiscrImination the labour market and decide that perhaps it would "Married women should not mm. - Tory minister Lynda Chalker we cumpete for jobs." really wouldn't have created man and woman "

- Margaret Thatcher Labour says A Police State in Britain?

Break into your home without a warrant and seize your possessions without as . evidence of another person's alleged crimes - even if there are no charges against you.

Stop and search you on the streets - just because they thought you looked suspicious.

Arrest you for dropping litter in certain circumstances.

Hold suspects in a police station for Deny suspects held in police custody access Conduct forcible intimate body searches on want and to cut off whole neighbourhoods if they think a rrime MAY be committed in the area.

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