New lead needed
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our for press publicity are night winger Terry Duffy on the one hand and the Broad Left candidate Bob Wright (who in reality is also a right winger) on the other.
Wright-who is supported as candidate for the Presidency by none other than Scanlon himself -offers no alternative to the existing leadership.
Socialist Workers Party member lan Morris, running on an *Engineering Charter' platform, has repeatedly shown his inability to lead any political fight against the Broad Left-right wing coalition that controls the AUEW.
But an alternative programme is put forward by Alan Wilkins of the Workers Revolutionary Party. Though inadequate in many respects his election address does call for "a sliding scale of working hours" and a policy of "threshold rises" to protect against inflation.
The Workers Socialist League has serious political differences with the WRP-but we call for a vote for Wilkins in the AUEW election as the clearest answer to the treachery of the current