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WE VE HAD THE MARCH-NOW Organised by Leicester Unemployed SATURDAY 27 JUNE 10.30-5.00pm Leicester Polytechnic Students Union Sessions on Organising the Unemployed Accommodation available on the The Tory press has once again frothed and time the decision to advise constituency parties to carry through a genuine rather than a rubber-stamp reselection of MPs.

The NEC decisioncarried by 15 votes to 9 against the opposition of a specially flown-in Michael Foot-does no more than advise CLPs of the recommended procedure.

It cannot compel right wing led parties to open up its shortlist to more than the single name of the sitting candidate: and those right wingers_ (Callaghan, Boothroyd, Faulds, Snape, etc) who have already come through such a procedure are not to be forced to submit to a genuine reselection.

Only seven But in view of the fact that only seven out of 630 prospective candidates have so far been firmly agreed, the NEC attempt to make the "shortlist of one" an exception to the general rule will change the conditions for the majority of rank and file Labour Party members seeking a voice in the selection of their candidate.

The decision to thus give concrete form to the reselection procedure was of course vociferously opposed both by the official right wingHealey, Foot, Golding, Rates Trial sub (UK).

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, Londo Boothroya, etc-but also by the unofficial right wing which until recently paraded as 'left' wingers-Neil Kinnock, Judith Hart and Renee Short.

John Golding described the decision to issue new advice as "monstrous" • Far more monstrous however is the attempt by the right wing both at constituency level and in the Deputy Leadership contest to make A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over the long-running fight by Oxford Socialist Press supporter Ted Heslin to secure reinstatement to the Oxford CLP.

Two years of delays, hearings and appeals eventually brought an NEC ruling that he should be readmitted to the party, trom which he was expelled by the right wing GC for selling copies of Socialist Press.

Dissidents

Local witch-hunters complained again and failed to implement the NEC ruling.

NEC member Eric Heffer and National Agent David Hughes were dispatched to investigate the view of these right wing dissidents.

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e now to stop Edwarc the anti-democratic list of one" the norm.

Meanwhile the vote by Birmingham Ladywood CLP to oust a right wing sitting Labour MP at the next election in favour of left winger Albert Bore has registered the first tangible gain of the new system.

Bore is a Birmingham City Councillor and a supporter of the Labour Committee on Ireland.

When they reported back to last week's NEC meeting however, the decision to reinstate Heslin was upheld.

Assurances

The local Gl has, we understand, been called upon to readmit him to membership, pending meeting with representatives of the NEC.

At that meeting Heslin will be asked to give certain formal assurances on his conduct.

But since there would be little prospect of the NEC devoting any further time or trouble to the Heslin case if he were to remain outside the Party, and there has never been any question of his agreeing to cease selling Socialist Press, this can only mean that the NEC upholds the view that it is permissable for Labour Party activ-

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