PLATITUDES and misuse of statistics by Harriet Harman may not be enough to bring Blair victory on pensions. The leadership will try tó get those who have submitted radical motions to remit and set up a commission to draft future policy, apparently with the support of pensioners leader fack Jones.
Barbara Castle, once the prime architect of the vicious anti-union "In Place of Strife' has become the opposition spokesperson on pensions. She says she is not backing down.
Castle, together with Peter Townsend of the University of Bristol, took up the absence of any commitment to action on pensions in the 'Road to the Manifestó'.
Their pamphlet 'We CAN afford the Welfare State' power. fully rebuts Labour's slide to means-testing not only on pensions but on benefits more gener. ally.
One million pensioners do not claim the income support to which they are entitled. The pamphlet highlights the high administration costs cost of Simon Deville STRIKING Liverpool dockers were joined by thousands of supporters to the first anniversary of their mark struggle in the biggest demonstration since tey were tirst lockea out.
Environmentalists, animal rights activists, and campaigners against the Jobseekers Allowance and the Criminal Justice Act made up a sizeable commoneni or ine пготест. This is not the tirst time that the korinm the Streets movement has mobilised in support of striking workers.
This Saturday the anniversary will be marked by a demonstration leaving from Hillingdon Civic Centre at 1pm. Put the spotlight on ScotRail Trying to build a na-