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Two more Parliamentary Private Secretaries resigned last week-with again no prospect of carrying out any serious fight against the Callaghan-Healey leadership.

The resignations of Bruce Grocott and Ivor Clemitson came with their vote against the Second Reading of the Bill proposing an increased number of MPs • from Northern Ireland.

The Bill itself is part of the reactionary deal through which Callaghan's government has enlisted the Parliamentary support of Enoch Powell and the Ulster Unionists.

But sooner than launch any fight on the real issues at stake, Grocott and Clemitson merely followed Tribunites Bob Cryer and Brian Sedgemore out of their junior governmental positions-leaving the right wing leaders untouched.

Labour whip Jock Stallard even managed to PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Sedgemore retain his job while abstaining on the same issue.

Meanwhile the speed-up, wage controls, cuts and military terror in Ireland continue unabated.

The workers' movement does not need the fake heroics of individual protest gestures-but a determined fight, even if led initially by only one or two people, for the removal of Callaghan and Healey.

The constituency parties represented by Cryer, Sedgemore, Clemitson and Grocott should demand that these MPs undertake the task-and appeal beyond the confines of the Labour Party itself to the entire trade union movement for They should be offered full backing insofar as they carry forward the fight against the right wing leaders, and urged to go further and to spell out a socialist programme to defend workers' independent interests.

Worthlessness

The persistent refusal of even the most left' talking Labour MPs to wage such a fight is a clear indication of their worthlessness, and the necessity to construct a leadership that goes beyond their reformist approach and offers workers a revolutionary perspective and