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Waffle leaders James Laxer and Mel Watkins: If they have their way, says writer Desmond Morton, the New Democratic Party's left wing will march into the void of political impotence
Waffle leaders James Laxer and Mel Watkins: If they have their way, says writer Desmond Morton, the New Democratic Party's left wing will march into the void of political impotence

Waffle leaders James Laxer and Mel Watkins: If they have their way, says writer Desmond Morton, the New Democratic Party's left wing will march into the void of political impotence

Date5/7/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Waffle leaders James Laxer and Mel Watkins: If they have their way, says writer Desmond Morton, the New Democratic Party's left wing will march into the void of political impotence.
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Determined to keep their left-wing Waffle group alive despite its ouster by the Ontario New Democratic Party, Melville Watkins (left), the leader, and(...)
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Stephen Lewis, Ontario leader of the new Democratic Party, speaks at a meeting of the party's provincial council that voted to order the left-wing Waffle group to dissolve
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