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, BM Box 5277, critic of the Healey/Callaghan He made a keynote speech at the post election Labour conference in 1979. They said Jim would fix it. ;. Jim certainly fixed it for me.

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And almost his last political act was to chair a meeting of his Selly Oak constituency defence of the eight victimised Longbridge stewards.

That does not make Litterick a revolutionary. He was fatally tied to the belief that Parliamentarianism and gradualism could reform capitalist oppression out of existence.

His were politics which must ultimately collapse in front of events or be swiftly ditched. Litterick's death means that choice never faced him in its starkest form.

These were not of course, the points that appeared in the skimpy which appeared in the capitalist press.

Litterick received only a few sorry inches in the Guardian. Third or fourth fiddle on the Times obituary page. Tom Litterick, former MP for Bitand ownership within personal relationships.

Tom's death was the signal for the press to take its revenge. Reporters called on Mrs Litterick to record her griefstricken ramblings.

For four years she has nursed her sense of loss and that pent up resentment poured out in as clear an expression of 'ownership' as the staunchest bourgeois moralist could have wished.

The Daily Star led its front page with an interview headed: "Give Me My Husband's Body" and subtitled 'MPs widow in heartbreak wrangle with his mistress', His 'mistress' in fact did her best to stay out oi any wrangle, sensibly issuing only a brief statement through her solicitor:

But the rantings of his former wife were served up as a funeral fusilade over Litterick's grave.

A sample of the 'evils' of adultery SEM recorded as follows:

"After being told by her solicitor of his death, she [Mrs Litterick] read in the times that he was to have a private funeral.

A small entry in the obituary column requested no flowers and asked for donations to be