Bradford Socialist Aliance was formed in January and, in February, selected a candidate to stand against New Labour in The Alliance has started canvassing support on the street participated in the National Day of Action on railway priThe development of the Allance in Bradford comes against a backdrop of sweeping roposals for privatisation in Bradford Council. The ToryLiberal coalition running the council is carrying through pricouncil services.
In doing this they are continuing a programmepened up by which preceded them. It brought forward its proposals to privatise the education ser vice shortly before the election working class.
Three of the Labour MPs in Bradford have shown varying degrees of support or tr campaign to oppose this prione from scratch.
One of them. Gerry Sutcliffe MP for Bradford South, used his appearance at a lobby of the council to bunch a remarkable attack on the Socialist Afiance prooterris as undemocratic. Apparently their offence was to give out leaflets at the lobby! Alliance, justifying Polly The Bacord A jance is small but growing. Its prospective candidate will stand in abstentionism.
Liverpool tion, suggests a real fear in the defeated in struggles against Labour bureaucracy that the hatcher's government than allance will Endan echo in the to lead any fight that might weaken British capitalism Toynbee's criticism of the members in their activities. "dotty left" Alliance political New Labour has an apparatus already. The Alliance must build complain thal it is not Kinnock-style "new realist" Participating organisations campaign, based upon finetuning the existing capitalist structive attitude, suggesting economic there is a will to overcome reiuggling taxation, interest rates and money supply to Sadly Worker's Tannoy have make small-scale changes. not shown up at all in the "coalition of dreamers," she Toynbee's diagnosis in the should demand an end to poverty, improved pensions, "modernisers" grants and imposed tuition fees - a step even the Tories never attempted. should also councils like check our Labour's massive housing, or the NHS Trusts which will be forking out billions to private sector development consortia for lack of government capital. Minimum wage effectively And how Joyabee ancy cking oul al existence on Labour's much. vaunted £3.75 an hour or mum wage (or even £4:10) -on the wretched pittance allocated to seckers under New Labour's vicious voucher is worse than the the idea that we Strangely, however, final section of her article
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