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	Dave Nellist Information
		David Nellist (born July 1952) is a Trotskyist political figure and former Labour MP for the former constituency of Coventry South East.
		A long-standing Marxist and at that time supporter of the Militant Tendency, Nellist was an MP in Coventry from 1983 to 1992, when he was known for his standing as a "workers' MP on a worker's wage".
		Dave is now one of the leading figures in the Campaign for a New Workers' Party in Britain, which is a Socialist Party sponsored campaign to create a new party to represent working class people in the UK.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Dave_Nellist (358 words)

	Weekly Worker 329 Thursday March 30 2000
		Comrade Nellist replied that he was not sure whether the structure was intended to permit the affiliation of regional, as opposed to local, socialist alliances: "We haven't in the past had a regional alliance affiliated," he declared.
		Dave Church of the Walsall Democratic Labour Party - whether by accident or design - rescued the seemingly perplexed Nellist with the statement that, "At the moment affiliation is open to both regional and local alliances".
		Interestingly, while comrade Nellist began his remarks with a mealy-mouthed support for the SP's official line of facing both ways, he ended up calling on all comrades to support the LSA - even to the point of urging them to go to London to help with the campaign.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/329/nellistbackslsa.html (1271 words)

	Socialist Alliance News for Coventry and Warwickshire
		Coventry City councillor Dave Nellist is calling on other political parties to boycott meetings involving the British National Party, but he does not want the BNP banned.
		Nellist, national chairman of the Socialist Alliance, has set the ball rolling by refusing to be in the same room as a BNP candidate for the Euro elections.
		Coventry Councillor and former city MP Dave Nellist is to become the first person in Britain to have a party named after him.
	www.cwn.org.uk /politics/socialist-alliance (144 words)

	Militant Labour launch Socialist Party on a bankrupt perspective
		The aim of the Socialist Party is to "raise the idea in people's minds that they have to build a new working class party" but the programme and orientation of such a party, and the strategic experiences made by the working class with various so-called "socialist" organisations in the past, are not for discussion.
		Nellist's arguments are a political indictment of his organisation.
		Nellist dismisses all such principled considerations on the grounds that the working class is too confused to be concerned over the political differences between various groups.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /elect97/militant/splaunch.htm (1875 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| Socialists offer 'distinct voice'
		Former Labour MP Dave Nellist, national chair of the group, said the party offered a "distinct voice", away from the mainstream consensus.
		Mr Nellist acknowledged the Alliance would not win the election, but said its decision to stand would give "millions of working people a choice".
		Launching the manifesto and poster opposite Labour's Millbank headquarters in London, Mr Nellist urged disillusioned voters to join the socialists to "break the mould of British politics".
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1333000/1333724.stm (382 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| True Spies \| MP 'spied on by the state'
		Former Labour MP, Dave Nellist, has reacted angrily to revelations that he was spied on by Special Branch during the 1980s.
		At the time, Mr Nellist was a supporter of Militant, who critics saw as a highly organised Trotskyite group set on infiltrating the Labour party.
		Mr Nellist, now a Socialist Alliance Councillor in Coventry, says: "What was the state doing in investigating, if it was me, an elected Member of Parliament who had the support of thousands of people in the area to go off and do a job down in London?"
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/true_spies/2378459.stm (911 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		It was he, in his wry and charming way, who referred to this as the spot where rightwing Labour plotters used to gather two decades ago - the founders of the social democratic party, splitters on the other side.
		Nellist was evasive on both, saying they hadn't quite decided yet, but he'd let her know.
		Nellist is no Scargill, a sincere and decent man - but more vicar than politician.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4144784,00.html (1117 words)

	West Midlands Socialist Alliance
		The Socialist Alliance believes that with PR already proving that socialists can be elected to the parliaments of Ireland and Scotland, that they are well placed, as the major minor party in the region, to elect a socialist to the European Parliament.
		Cllr Dave Nellist is the National Chair of the organisation.
		Dave Nellist 46, from Coventry, former Labour MP, 'back bencher of the year' 1991, expelled by Labour over the Poll Tax in 1992.
	www.labournet.org.uk /wmsa.html (621 words)

	Re: The Socialist Party
		Dave Nellist & Co are in a similar position.
		Dave Nellist and Tommy Sheridan might not be 'the last of the socialists' but they are certainly part of a dying breed.
		Unless, of course, the proponents of "socialism" finally realise that there is going to be a fight for the 'hearts and minds' of their traditional working class constituency.
	www.redaction.org /wwwboard/messages/233.html (864 words)

	Britain: sects in a mess - Split in the Socialist Alliance conference
		Dave Nellist stayed in the Chair and the bulk of the SP remained to see how the amendments went in the afternoon.
		When it became clear that the vote was going against them, comrade Nellist issued a brief statement that the SA was "no longer the organisation he'd helped form" and led an organised walk-out of around 100 SP'ers.
		John Nicholson of Sheffield SA was swiftly elected as chair in Nellist's place and the conference got on with the serious business of carving up the leading positions.
	www.marxist.com /britain-sects-mess061201.htm (1695 words)

	Hakmao: Curious Orange
		However, if one is to use parliament as a platform, surely this necessitates being in the House, er speaking, and er, voting, not treating one's office as a sinecure[*], while self-aggrandising, flitting around running up one's expense account, and nestling up to dictators.
		I might not agree with all of the SSP's policies, but at least, on the matter of salaries, and the opportunities afforded to so-called revolutionary socialists by participation in a bourgeois parliament, they're not hypocrites.
		Actually my understanding is that they trouser the full whack, but then donate the majority of it to trot central, leaving them the 'average' (not the mean) skilled workers salary - which if memory serves works out at around 26k, though I know plumbers who can make that in an afternoon nowadays.
	blog.hakmao.com /archives/001354.html (335 words)

	Socialism Today - How the right made Labour safe for business
		Alarm was fuelled by the election of Militant councillors in Liverpool and MPs Terry Fields, Dave Nellist and Pat Wall.
		Dave Nellist, among others, is quoted as saying that the introduction of Omov would allow four millionaire press barons to exercise immense influence in determining the leadership.
		The riposte in a political bulletin of the EETPU smugly quoted the Earl of Rutland who opposed an extension of suffrage in 1867: "I do not think the state of education in the country is sufficiently advanced to enable the government safely to propose so large a measure as that of household suffrage".
	www.socialismtoday.org /100/labour.html (1486 words)

	Weekly Worker 566 - Thursday March 3 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dave Nellist of the Socialist Party in England and Wales kicked off his contribution at the February 26 press launch of the Socialist Green Unity Coalition’s general election campaign with the comment that he felt like he was picking up a relationship with “old comrades” after being “rudely interrupted” a number of years ago.
		The break he was referring to of course was the SP’s withdrawal from the Socialist Alliance at the December 1 2001 conference.
		With the partial exception of comrade Nellist and his comrades in Coventry, the SP never wanted the SA to be more than a non-aggression pact.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/566/nellist.htm (896 words)

	Swansea Socialist Party - 12th April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cllr Dave Nellist, former MP for Coventry SE, and now a Socialist councillor in the city and parliamentary candidate in Coventry North-East, is to make the call at a meeting in Birmingham this Saturday (April 16).
		Cllr Nellist claims that "Hundreds of millions of pounds of public money will be spent picking up the pieces of this industrial vandalism if the closure of Rover goes through.
		Cllr Nellist will also call for the trade unions to be given access to the company books so they can see the true situation at Rover.
	www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk /12april05.htm (440 words)

	Crisis of Working Class Political Representation
		One of the speakers sharing the conference platform is Dave Nellist, who stood for the Socialist Party of England and Wales in the General Election.
		Dave, who was originally a Labour MP in Coventry SE, was expelled from the Party.
		Nellist was first elected as a Labour MP in 1983 with 15,307 votes (41.1%).
	www.marxist.com /crisis-working-class-representation160106.htm (2431 words)

	Is the Socialist Alliance a step forward?
		For instance Dave Nellist (one of the central leaders of the Socialist Alliance) strongly implied in Rugby that the Labour Party used to be an organ of class struggle acting in the interests of the working class.
		Dave Nellist and his comrades in the Socialist Party have advocated standing working class candidates against the Labour Party for some years now.
		In contrast with the candidates of Blair’s overtly pro-capitalist Labour Party, a vote for these candidates was a way of expressing support for the idea of independent working class politics, but their programme was left social-democratic, not revolutionary.
	www.bolshevik.org /mb/8alliance.htm (4169 words)

	FINANCE & ACCOUNTING:EROL
		Using real-life case study examples, Dave Nellist explains the importance of finance for business start-ups -- what the main sources of finance are, and their pros and cons.
		In this entertaining guide, Dave Nellist talks us through the importance of finance for business start-ups: what the main sources are, and the pros and cons of each.
		Dave Nellist presents a lively explanation of accounting systems and what they do in companies ranging from a small business to a huge retail group.
	www.tvchoice.uk.com /x569.html (1364 words)

	For those of you who where there Thank you again for all the hard work during or prior to conferance
		Vice President Congratulations to Michelle Evans winning 360 to 268 over Gill George, a hard fought campaign between 2 female NHS Reps. Despite a more active campaign by the opposition the majority is almost triple that of last year.
		In the Staff sector, Anne Trafford (who deserves congratulation for her handling of conference) and Dave Cooke were elected.
		You are now entitled to a couple of days well earned rest and then we have to start concentrating on the upcoming elections for the new NEC to take office in January.
	www.btinternet.com /~davidbeaumont/msf/msfflconference.html (507 words)

	Yesterday In Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nellist complains bitterly about difference between old rates on his Coventry home and new community charge - price of his family's summer holiday.
		Chope retorts that he happens to know that Nellist has registered to pay tax in Wandsworth - which has about lowest in country.
		Nellist demands to know how Chope has discovered this supposedly confidential information.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/yesterday_in_parliament.html (131 words)

	Other Candidates Are, The
		Dave Nellist of the Socialist Party was once a Labour MP in Coventry but was thrown out of the party for being too left wing.
		Dave Nellist thinks things are moving the Socialist way.
		He thinks that if conditions are right and if he can get some of the big unions on board, there could be a "breakthrough" in the next two to five years.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/other_candidates_are__the.html (501 words)

	Nationalise Rover call by Councillor
		Former Coventry MP Dave Nellist has called for the money that is likely to be made available to tackle the fall-out from a Rover collapse to be diverted.
		The motion submitted by Cllr Nellist also demands that trade unions be given access to the company books so they can see the true situation at Rover.
		Cllr Nellist said today: “Tens of thousands of workers in our region face an uncertain future, as behind closed doors administrators (in reality, asset strippers) pick over the bones of what Phoenix have left of Rover.
	www.labournet.net /ukunion/0504/rover1.html (458 words)

	Tower Hamlets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nellist was a very strong Labour MP in Coventry for 9 years [and before that was (briefly) a County Councillor in the City elected in a by-election].
		While his fellow SP members have managed to win the other two seats in that ward, it is on the back of Nellist's work and reputation that they owe their seats.
		Nellist scored less in the 2005 General Election (5%) in a Coventry constituency than for example Respect's Michael Lavalette in Preston and well behind Salma Yaquoob in Birmingham, despite having been a prominent MP - so his support is very localised.
	www.vote-2006.co.uk /index.php?topic=30.msg10322 (1699 words)

	Afghanistan: Anti-war movement grows
		While correctly referring to US imperialism's role in the Middle East, not one speaker said that war and terrorism are rooted in the capitalist system of exploitation and profit, so to end wars we need to replace capitalism with socialism.
		Socialist Party members and Socialist Alliance Chair Dave Nellist would have argued the socialist case if he'd not been prevented from speaking.
		SOCIALIST PARTY councillor Dave Nellist might have been acceptable to Radio Five as an anti-war spokesperson (see last week's Socialist report on his debate with Colonel Bob Stewart) but it seems he's no longer acceptable to the Socialist Alliance (SA).
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2001/09/28c.html (432 words)

	Socialist Alliance
		Around hundred attended, which I thought was still quite small, but judging by the size of the room booked, was more than the organisers had expected.
		While it is rife with tensions (to party or not to party - being the main one) on a local level it also has clocked up some major success'.
		The election of Dave Nellist in Coventry, the Manchester Airport runway campaign in Manchester and the successful negotiation of various deals with the Greens in London meaning that the Socialist and Green left have managed to avoid hampering each other for once.
	members.tripod.com /~leftforum/alliance.html (553 words)

	Socialist Worker page
		He spoke of the feeling of "breaking new ground" and the importance of linking the defence of asylum seekers with the broader fight against global capitalism.
		Both Dave Nellist of the National Network of Socialist Alliances and John Rees of the London Socialist Alliance spoke about the crisis of New Labour.
		Dave Nellist talked about the volatility of British politics.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /archive/1718/sw171810.htm (1194 words)

	REPORT FROM THE RMT CONFERENCE JAN 21 2006
		Former Labour MP and Socialist councillor Dave Nellist clearly did the make the call for a new Workers’ Party, and announced that the SP would be calling a follow up conference on March 19
		Dave Nellist made it clear that the Conference which had been called to progress the Campaign for March 19
		He reminded the audience that many of them including Dave Nellist had been members of the SA.
	www.socialistalliance.org /ReportfromtheRMTConf.html (986 words)

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