Left wingers scapegoats for Election failure

those who are now blackmailing it. Under pressure from the bankers in the City of London, Zurich and New York, they are prepared to retreat.

Concessions

Mr. Callaghan has already assured big business that he will reduce the period of uncertainty as to what he proposes in relation to the corporation tax.

Such talk, is an uncalled for concession to the blackmailers. Callaghan has already taken steps to increase the cost of living for every worker in the country.

When dealing with the people who voted Labour he takes the roughest measures. He dons the kid gloves when he deals with the City. The Wilson government is, in fact, retreating before the blackmailers.

The proposed corporation tax is now revealed as a fraud. Callaghan has now informed the international bankers that their friends in the City will have no more extra to pay in the form of tax than they are paying now. The main burden of the crisis, is being placed, as we said it would be, on the backs of the working class. The bankers' TLabour Party is proposing paign by the Tory stooges-the Northern Ireland Faced with a Vicious camto expel three leading mem- religious division of the working bers who voted in the Belfast class, the Labour Party refused City Council against the to fight. Sunday opening of children's playcentres.

They are Alderman William Boyd-who is also an MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament— and councillors John Black and David Walsh.

Boyd and the councillors have SO far refused to sign an ultimatum which demands a complete capitulation to the right-wing executive.

The seemingly small issue of Sunday opening of play centres is reflecting a big crisis inside the Party which springs from the disastrous results in the General Election.

Four deposits were lost and their vote fell in every constituency which they had previously contested. From our Belfast Correspondent Unionist Party-to maintain the As with the Divis Street riots where they attempted to sit on the fence and call for "inquiries, they offered no leadership to the working class and failed to win their support.

OPPOSITION

Boyd and the others are being made scapegoats for the election fiasco. Sam Napier, the rightwing secretary of the Northern Ireland Labour Party obviously thinks that this will put a stop to the growing criticisms and frustrations among the rank and file.

The three are all members of Woodvale Divisional Party and have been picked upon because of their long history of opposition to the right wing.

Boyd explains his vote against the Sunday opening of play centres by saying that the people who live beside them don't want them open.

This opposition is not for religious reasons but as part of their discontent with their cramped housing conditions and lack of facilities and open space.

Boyd should have voted for Sunday opening and linked it with a call for a crash programme of house building.

The attempted expulsions occur at the same time as the economic crisis in Britain. As this crisis deepens, it will lead to more unemployment in Northern Ireland and a sharpening of the class struggle.

By campaigning immediately against the proposed expulsions and the lifting of all bans and proscriptions, a new leadership can be created which will fight for socialist policies. he Labour Club in Smethwick.

•We must put these silent people on the spot, we want to appeal to everyone to help us in this big campaign demand the freeing of Allen and the Nigerians' A resolution was passed asking the National Committee of the Socialist Labour League to write to the Nigerian Embassy asking them to receive a dele. gation, which would demand the immediate release of Dr. Allen, Jonas Kiomasekenagh, Oleshengun Adebayo and Sidi Kayam.

It was also agreed to ask the Commonwealth Secretary, Arthur Bottomley, to take the matter up.

SHOUTING Free Vic Allensupport Nigerian Workers!', 150 students, workers and Young Socialists marched through Leeds last Saturday behind a huge banner which proclaimed 'Free Vic Allen, Jonas Kiomasekenagh, Olenshengun Adebayo and Sidi Kayam'. Other banners demanded action from Harold Wilson and called for trade union freedom in Nigeria.

The march followed speeches mittee Member of the Socialist Labour League; John Wells, a factory convenor; Mike Heym, President of the Leeds University Labour Society; and a spokesman for a group of students from (Cont. page 4, Col. 1)

Page solution. Its programme was November 28,1964