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While right wing Labour MP Neville Sandleson held on to his candidacy by the skin of his teeth in Hayes and Harlington, Newham North East Labour Party has finally decided to proceed with the reselection of its Parliamentary candidate.
The endless manoeuvres of sitting MP, extreme right-winger Reg Prentice, have talled to prevent this step taking place, though they have delayed it for months.
Prentice has now been offered a regular column in the local Tory тав. "Newham Recorder, through which to conduct his war against the rank and file of the Labour The removal of Prentice can represent a victory against the agents of Toryism in the Labour Party, and point the way forward to the ousting of the whole anti-working class Callaghan-Healey clique.
But this will only be fully achieved if Prentice is replaced by a candidate who can offer a serious alternative for the working class.
Every effort must be made to ensure that the next election campaign (in which Prentice will no doubt stand against the Labour Party) is fought on total opposition to the spending cuts, wage cuts and job cuts of the government, with a commitment to act against these measures inside and outside Parliament and struggle for the removal of the leadership carrying them out.