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'Our criticism of the Left should not be for the best it can within the existing - but for their failure to mount opposition to the Tories which as sellers of a paper workers will never have heard of, or be the slightest bit interested in?

There is a similar economism in the attack on the Greater London Enterprise Board's failure to create many jobs, which is also in my view overstated.

Finally, the statement quoteu by Jan Wallcraft is a sufficient reply to the criticism. made:

... when the GLC came under attack, I felt that there was something worth defending.. That she was alienated later was not the result of ideas about the GLC being a bastion of socialism. It was because of the inadequate politics of the GLC left.

Again it is an argument for our being in there with an alternative, not for our abstention from the struggle.

To argue otherwise is to say that the Bolsheviks were wrong to carry through the Revolution, to act as a bastion of the Revolution, from which the Revolution could be spread. It is to argue that they should have waited for the world wide revolution.

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Police rail _ri Mary Pearson, with Callum McRae and Ken Livingstone, at a Labour Committee on Ireland meeting in Edinburgh last September runce rala irisn activist •SCIENCE CLPs conference Genetic e Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare but devastating disease in children which is known to be caused by the absence of a single gene, coding for an enzyme - hypoxathine phosphoribusyl transferase (HPRT).

When cells in the body die, their chemicals are either recycled or broken down and excreted. HPRT is instrumental in recycling substances called purines which are the building blocks of DNA and RNA.

When DNA and RNA are broken down, the purines are either recycled or turned into urate (uric acid) and excreted in the urine.

But in children lacking HPRT, all the purines are converted into urate. And urate salts and uric acid are very insoluble. ngineering Genetic engineers plan to do this by infecting patients with a particular virus carrying the PRT gene.

Retroviruses sometimes insert own DNA into that of their hosts. Genetic engineers have already inserted human HPRT genes into retroviruses and infected mouse bone marrow. The genes produced HPRT.

Now, researchers need to find retrovirus that Will infect humans and multiply, inserting the HPRT gene, but not causing any ill effects No-one knows whether LNS is treatable, even by this method - the damage to the sufferers may be irreversible - but at least the chance exists that a devastating disease may be curable.

On 22 December 1983 at 6.45 am my home was raided by eight plain clothes police officers. They were in possession of a warrant to search for explosives under the Criminal Damage Act. They al papers, books and photo1984 brings us all very many challenges. We are already called upon to carefully consider our preparations for a full-scale campaign to win maximum representation for Labour in June's direct elections to the European Assembly. Meanwhile, the Tories are moving swiftly and ruthlessly to cut the Labour Party's trade union connections, which could spell bankruptcy for our Party.

In all our localities attacks activis graphs.

Their behaviour showed quite clearly that they did not believe they were searching for explosives.

I believe that I was being raided because of my longstanding involvement in the Troops Out Movement and that the police took the and on the NHS. Meantime, deployment of Cruise at Greenham, and the expansion of the American bases in Britain are imposed on us with a brutal disregard for public preference and national sovereignty.

It is more than ever necessary that CLP activists gather together to exchange experiences and agree practical plans.

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opportunity to attempt to bombing. The reality was tha update their information. 99% of the questioning wa One police officer even stole about people opposing British a petition sheet bearing rule Ireland and their several names and addresses. political activity. His alibis During the search, a were nevery checked. friend, Alan O'Dwyer, a I am making a complaint former member of Sinn Fein, against the police on the was arrested under the following grounds. Prevention of Terrorism Act 1. Misuse of the warrant (PTA). He was held for - the warrant under the Criminal Damage Act was almost 30 hours at Sutton used to investigate my politicColdfield police station.

The screaming headlines al papers. said he was being held in A police officer stole connection with the Harrods a petition sheet bearing a number of names and addresses. I have demanded its immediate return. 3. No senior officer was left at my house following the arrest and this fact used by other officers to withC.B. their matis and here hold information from Therefore, as agreed at our last meeting in Brighton, we are they were based making preparations for the third in our series of consulta- plained Med sister has also com tions for CLP representatives, to be held in Nottingham on Saturday, 24 March 1984. abusive At our most recent consulta- her 11 year old daughter after tion, held in Brighton on the she saw him steal the petiSunday of Conference week, over 250 delegates participated. tion. Another vital point that is members of the constituency After hearing short reports from raised by my experience is section of the NEC, we dwelt on the role of the magistrates. three main issues: fighting the Either the police told lies European Assembly elections;

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