[Labour Party Young Socialists summe: camp 1983: July…]
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Labour Party Young Socialists summe: camp 1983: July 30 to August 6. All Young Socialists should come: a week of YS workshops, Class Fighter meetings, and very much more debate than transport. Bring sleeping bags and tents. ERIC Heffer's candidacy for the Labour leadership is opposed in the unions not only by the right wing and soggy 'left' among the top bureaucrats, but also by the Communist Party and its fellow travellers.
Although the CP paper 'Morning Star' has hedged its bets, CP members in ASTMS have warmly supported the union's 'initiative' in launching the Kinnock bandwagon. CP members in the TGWU raised their hands in unanimous endorsement of Kinnock on the union's General Executive Council.
Morning Star correspondent Mick Costello is 'confident' that this will be carried by delegates at next month's TGWU conHeffer ference.
In the Sheet Metalworkers' union, Stalinist general secretary George Guy is one of four national officers recommending Kinnock's nomination. :
In throwing their trade union support behind Kinnock, the CP plainly hope that they can back an ostensibly 'left' candidate while retaining their cosy links with the right wing of the bureaucracy. " There is no reason to believe that this stance would change should Kinnock win the post and embark upon a full-scale purge of the Left. there is at YS conference.
Contact Class Fighter, 13 Buxton Road, London N19 for details and bumbling old fool and not up to