PRIY Holborn: it's Dobson's choice

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programme and fight for support.

As the line of cryptoTories "coming out" among Labour's ranks lengthened last week, the fanatic right wingers of the Social Democratic Alliance urged workers not to vote Labour unless Callaghan denounced Labour leaders, 'left' or right.

After a farcical selection procedure (reported earlier in Socialist Press) Labour Party members in Holborn and St. Pancras found themselves saddled with prospective candidate Frank Dobson.

His election address well summed up the inanity of his politics, beginning with the revelation that:

"Here in Central London it really matters whether we have a Labour or a Tory government But the rest of the document threw into question the advantages of a Labour over a Tory government. Certainly there was no hint of a socialist policy to be seen.

Dobson conceded that railwaymen and teachers cannot compete for flats with oil millionaires or office developers.

But instead of opposing wage controls and fighting to expropriate the capitalists, Dobson offers only rent controls and more "planning"

Indeed Camden's Labour Council is proposing to evict 200 squatters from Tolmer Square to make way for private property developers.

"Pensioners and postmen can't afford private medical attention", his election address continued.

But it is cuts under Labour. that have provided a bonanza for private medical firms.

This evasion continued in the saction on foreign policy. While correctly opposing the Labour government's selling of arms to reactionary regimes, Dobson said nothing of the continued repression of the Irish people by British imperialism.

Dobson's abortive and dishonest election address follows in the footsteps of retiring 'left' MP Lena Jeger who in her farewell statement declares herself proud of the Labour government's five years of wretched betrayals.:

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