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Bring your Labour Party and Trade Pemberton TG The contest for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party is a battle between the advocates of democratic control and accountability and the die hard defenders of bureaucratic arrogance.
Nothing could more clearly have confirmed this than the events last : 32% The grossly misnamed 'Representation of the People Bill' was givcer its. third and final reading in the Commons last Friday by a majority of 108 votes.
The Bill which prevents convicted prisoners serving more than 12 months from standing for Parliament was amended to prevent political prisoners born in Northern Ireland but serving sentences in the Republic from standing.
Meanwhile as an eighth prisoner in the H Blocks of Long Kesh joins the hunger strike, the condition of Joe McDonnell- 52 days on hunger strike as we go to press - is deteriorating rapidly. He is unable to leave his bed and suffers from dizzy spells and blurred vision.
The previous four hunger strikers survived between 59 and 66 days so Joe McDonnell has only a few days to live unless the British government can be forced te back down from both to class action against their intransigent stand in he Tory government and for alternative socialist policies in Break Bipartisanship!
Support the Hunger Strikers!
SATURDAY 4 JULY ir. "
A7 :A Union bei refusing to meet the prisoners' five demands.
The task of forcing the Tories to back down cannot and must not be left to the hunger strikers and their supporters in the six counties.
Every socialist, every trade unin: maitant in Britain mi 'untly take up the fig: apport of the bunger strik rs.
Resolutions must be tabled in trade union and Labour Party branches demanding that the Labour Party break from its bi-partiser stand with the Tories and instead back the struggle for political status and for the iome hate with drawal of British troops from Northern Ireland One important way of advancing this campaign is through the building of the Labour Committee on Ire: land to mobilise the growing oppositin within the Labour Party at Foot ånd Concannon's connivance with the Tories.
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Labour Committee on Ireland Sack Concannon!
Assemble 2.00 p.m. Mansfield BR Station