'At a lunch-time rally held on May 31, day of the special Labour Party conference, Tony Benn called for extending stillfurther the democrac relors m une party.
While supporting the changes already aired at last year's conterence, Benn added two additional points. The main one was to call the Parliamentary Labour Party to be more accountable by having it pledge to abide by party policy decided at conference.
This major new step to be welcomed by all Labour activists fed up to the teeth with seeing Labour governments walking roughshod over conference decisions was elaborated on Benn betorehand in a broadsheet bilise for Labour Democracy'.
Labour candidate should be obliged to sign a form promising support for the manifesto and that the PLP be called on to give annual reports of cuts actions to conference.
The grouping backing the broadsheet Rank and File Mobilising Committee intends holding a series of meetings to rally support for this key demand up and down the country. We should all make sure they get it. PUBLICITY The London police cheif John A. Dellow, in charge of the negotiations with the Arabs, told a news conference on May 6th that the occupiers had dropped their original demands. "I think", he pointed out, "that after making a certain amount of publicity for their cause, they just wanted to leave safely". But the British authorities had 'given no consideration at all to this'.
EXAMPLE Why not? Because the government saw a perfect example in the occupation to drum up anti-Iranian hysteria and 'back' Carter's military raid in Iran a month or so earlier to