DEFEND,
MAINTAIN AND BUILD THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
I"The Socialist
Alliance has been a major step forward for the unity of the
socialist movement around a common programme, People Before
Profit. At its height the Alliance was able to bring together
independent socialists, ex-members of the Labour Party, the Socialist Party, SWP,
International Socialist Group, AWL, Workers Power, CPGB, RDG,
Workers International, and International Socialist League.
The motion from the SA Task Group to Saturday's
conference will, if passed, end the rights of local Alliances
to take democratic decisions about standing candidates, as
Socialist Alliance candidates, in local council or parliamentary
elections. Such candidates would be subject to approval of
another organisation (Respect) and only permitted to stand
in the name of Respect regardless of the democratic decisions
of SA members.
The current situation is therefore one of real
danger for the SA and the project of uniting socialists in
one organisation. We call on all members, regardless of any
political differences we may have had in the past, to work
closely together to defend, maintain and build the SA".
Coventry and Warwicks SA, International Socialist
League, Lesley Mahmood (SA Executive), Pete McLaren, Steve
Godward (SA Executive), Sue Blackwell, Dave Parks (Exeter
SA), Dave Church (Walsall SA) , Peter Grant (Branch Sec Manchester
Piccadilly ASLEF), Chris Jones (Merseyside SA), Beth Aze (Co-Convenor
Chorlton Area SA (Manchester), Tony Greenstein (Secretary,
Brighton Unemployed Centre), Martin Thomas (SA Executive)
Steve Freeman (Beds SA), Pete Radcliff (Nottingham SA), David
Landau, John Pearson, (Secretary Stockport SA), Barry Biddulph
(Chair Stockport SA), Stuart Crosthwaite (Sheffield SA Steering
Cttee), Toby Abse (Greenwich SA), Daniel Randall (Nottingham
SA) Dave Spencer (Coventry SA Org Cttee), Danny Thompson (Beds
SA), Dot Gibson (Lambeth SA), Terry Liddle (Greenwich SA &
ISTC), Daniel Murphy (S. Manchester SA), Tom Delargy (SSP),
Jane Clarke (Beds SA), Charlie Pottins (Brent SA), Bill Hunter
(Merseyside SA), Tim Oxton (Colchester SA), Steve Wheeler
(Bromsgrove), Rob Marsden (Leicester SA), Geoff Palmer, (Treasurer,
Hornsey & Wood Green SA), Steven Cox (Dudley SA), Martin
Ralph (Merseyside SA), Bob Archer (Newham, East London)"
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