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N.W.CENTRE £71.50! That's how much money was raised within the first ten days of the appeal for the North-West Red Weekly Centre.

Labour Party sympathiser, £10 from a Liverpool healthworker, and numerous smaller contributions have been gratefully received.

But over the next three weeks we need to raise E300 altogether that's another £228.50. To build support for Red Weekly's policies in the North West, we would urge all our readers to consider donations. Please make cheques payable to The Week' and send c/o North West Red Weekly Centre, 14 Piccadilly, Manchester. force in the North East.

After Mr Short's remarks an official at the Civic Centre ripped a microphone away from Socialist Worker candidate Dave Hayes as he tried to make a speech, and then nad tne ponce tow away ine car No prizes for guessing who ordered all The Labour leaders cannot conceive of workers democracy. After all, they could not even stomach came vine s extremes limited proposals for an enquiry into the corrupt Labour machine of Short/Smith and Cunningham in the North East.

The fight against corruption therefore is inseparable from the fight against the present mis-leaders of the working class. It is part and parcel of the fight against the whole policy of this Labour Government. In Newcastle the Labour candidate, Harry Cowans, stands for the Govern ment and has made no attempt to distance himself from the Ted Short machine.

Therefore we urge a vote for the candidate of the International Socialists in Newcastle as we do in Walsall. Despite our differences with the approach of the IS, they have taken up the question of corruption and related it to the fight for workers democracy. A vote for IS therefore represents a vote against the totally undemocratic, bureaucratic Labour Party parnamentary macnine, and against tne right-wing policies of its Government.

GEOFF RYAN

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Socialist Worker candidate, Dave Hayes, discusses with the mother and sister of Liddle Towers, the EEPTU steward, whose murder has been covered up by the corrupt police