Foot and Mouth
Socialist Press1981 1981-03-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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With most diseases, it falls to the healthy to cure the sick.
But in the Labour Party it is the right wing leadership that is Now the laughably misnamed Labour Solidarity' campaign desperately seeking ways to infect the rank and file - with its own While Michael Foot has adopted a more temperate tone than And if this tactic fails, then Dennis Healey, for one, is advocating Healey in his fulminations against the left, he too has declared action against healthy members-through a campaign culminating in himself a part of the fight to bring Labour Party policies back into the expulsion of socialists and supporters of the Militant tendency. line with those advocated by the late and unlamented social The disease is of course endemic among the right wing leaders of the PLP. And one-time left' wingers-such as Neil Kinnock-who It is up to healthy rank and file socialists to take up the fight to fail to take adequate disinfection precautions-have plainly fallen LA Apart from the massive cuts in public expenditure and the threat they represent to all local government workers, the Local Government and Land Act which becomes law on April 1 is the most comprehensive attack yet mounted against Direct Labour.
The Act is part of the Tories overall strategy towards the privatization of local government services, opening publio services up to market forces' At present Direct Labour Organisations operate in such a way that they provide-to some extent-the following advantages: local corinnity based o to the determine what constitutes a contract, so councils will be unable to get round tendering regulations by splitting up. contracts.
2) Accounts. Central to the whole Act is the accounting method, which highlights tendering and profit-making as measures of success. The Department of the Environment has specified four different accounts to be kept, distinct from other local authority accounts:
a) General highways.
b) New construction over £50,000.
c) New construction £50,000.
d) Maintenance.
The DoE will have the power to decide exactly what items should and should not be _AB brand of crypto-Tory politics. victim.
been set up to actively spread the contagion.
democrats.
stamp out the disease within Labour's ranks. SUGAR