All readers in the Glasgow
area should give support
‘to a meeting this Sunday,
May 23rd, °Tganised by
C.N.D. and Traces Council.
It is on the Vietnam
crisis and will have 5
M.P.s as speakers. They
are N. Carmichael, N.
Buchan, Hugh Brown (Provan)
John Rankin, Maurice
Miller (Xelvingrove).
It is:'at the McLellan .
Galleries and starts at
7-30 PeMe
The municipal election results have been commented upon so widely and analysed in such detail it is scarcely necessary for us to more than note certain featwres. Firstly, there was no real swing to the right: the loss of just a little less than one thousand seats was due to Labour
Secondly, that within a framework of a general loss of votes, there were quite marked local variations: one has only to contrast the winning of control in Flint - a steel centre ~ with the severe losses in a
Thirdly, it has been universally noted that one of factors in Labour's losses was the severe decline in Labour workers.
radical programme.
It is almost trite to say that the lesson is clear: that what is needed to reverse the decline in Labour's fortunes is a bolder and more
The fight for such a turn is not a simple matter - it has to combine a firm principled stand on important issues with a flexible approach and sensitive understanding of those in the Party who will react defensively to any criticism of the Government. the running around concrete issues and taking due regard of the practical problems connected with Labour's narrow majority. fighting policy against the Tories.
This means above all making.
Its means elaborating a
As well as drawing the obvious lessons we must force the Government to turn its sharp edge against the Tories: the Ulster M.P.s need putting in their place;
features in the electoral system which favour the Tories need sweeping away; the House of Lords must: be eradicated; Polling Day should be a bank holidays; votes should be given at 18; etc. By simultaneously raising these issues with the campaign for real socialist policies we will at once find common ground with all Labour supporters, strike at the basis for an excuse to drift to right, and, most important of all, help to generate a fighting spirit.in Labour's ranks,