We welcome letters on any subject but please keep them brief. Letters over 350 words will be cut. Send your letters to: Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109, London, N4 2UU British mouse into the German LABOUR'S NEC have imosca a canarante for ne s Vovember by-election in Hemsworth constituency. The candidate who had the vast majority of the nominations and the backing of the locally powerful NUM, left-winger Ken Capstick, has been overturned in favour of Kinnockite Derek Enright.
The NEC decision is indicative of the state of democracy in the Labour Party. Hemsworth consutuency is centred on the town of South Emsall, which was at the heart of the 1984-5 Tory vendetta has targeted unions solldarity miners' strike. It includes the huge pit of Frickley, and included the South Kirby pit, shut down two years ago.
Sricklev and South Kirbi miners were among the most and determined during the 1984-5 strike. David Jones, the first miner to be killed South iby: And Ken Capatick started work at the pit at the age of 15.
The NEC says that Capstick "has no record of activity in the party - despite being a member for 13 years.
Capstick annoyed the Labour leadership by moving the resolution at this year's the Labour leadership over the anti-Scargill media witch hunt. He has also committed the heinous 'crime of opposing the anti-union laws.
The NUM plays an enorLabour Party: Ken Capstick was the miners' choice, and that of local party branches. Kinnock played an abysmal role in reveals his continued contempt bota for she mining com munities and democracy.