Irish Campaign in launched | IMGpapers 1980

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member, Labour Committee on Ireland A CAMPAIGN to 'break the silence on the question of Ireland inside the Labour Party' and to 'commit the party to a policy of withdrawal from Ireland' was formally launched at a press conference in the Commons on Wednesday of last week.

This follows a conference the previous Saturday which established the Labour Committee on Ireland and which attracted over a hundred members of the Labour Party from 44 CLPs.

Opening Stallard MP explained what he thought was needed:

'We must build mass support inside the Labour Party and trade union movement demanding and insisting that we demolish the bi-partisan approach bedevilled the Labour Party for so long "Most of us here oppose partition. Our task is to move the party towards that policy.' Withdrawal press conference Rosemary Sales, the LCl's press officer and member 5. Hackney explained that the mediate aim of the campaign was to get a resolution calling adopted the Labour comerence The model resolution being circulated to Labour Parties throughout the country reads:

'Conference recognises that the clear popular wish of the Irish progress towards a united House of Jock which has CLP, Party the evidence development country.

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