Outlook WC rihwest LoRta ICATIOS Alliance campaigns Haringey platform: yman Benmet, Imran Khan, Anna Glucksin, Tariq Ali, Louise Chrstax TH Council, Botcherby Ward) I Haringey Socialist Aliançe held a highly impressive meeting on mare au to tune is campaign in the two constituencies of Horsey and 250 people packed into Wood Green Labour Club to hear the local candidates Weyman Bennett (Tottenham) and Louse Cnnsuan (or1bc7 and Wood Green), who were joined on the platform by Tariq Ali, Delroy Lindo and Imran Khan, It was unfortunate that in he end RMT Deputy General Secretary Secretary ! Crow had to seno no apo gies as union business in Russia prevented his attendance, but this did have one interesting side effect - there were no white men on the platform!.
A key strength of both candidates lies in their commitment to the anti-racist strugasetony of imobement in local Weyman has a long campaigns, and more recenthy has been heavily involved in the campaign by Roger Sytvester's family to demand a public inquiry into his murder by Tottenham police Radical lawyer Louise Christian, in a powerful speech, explsined that she felt honoured to have been chosen to stano aaurst bor Dard Roche, who has been responsible for developing and implementing so much of new Labour's disgraceful attacks on asyiur secker Other than jack Straw, she told me afterwards, there's no one she would rather stand against.
Louise also spoke abour the effects of rail privatisation on pople's lives - drawing on her work on the Southall and Ladbroke Grove Inquiries inta rail crashes there which cost so many lives in the reientless search for profic.
This inspiring evering demonstrated once again that the Socialist Alliance is bringing into activity whole layers of people who are ignored by conventional politics.