IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

TO SPEAK ON IRELAND AT LABOUR CONFERENCE

· Socialist Challenge No. 159, 7 August 1980 · p. 8 of the scan · 256 words

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TONY Benn has agreed to be one of the speakers at a meeting on Ireland to be held at this year's Labour Party conference Blackpool.

*ne meelly will be held under the auspices of the Labour Com mittee on Ireland, the grouping inside the Labour Party which been largely responsole for gelling ten resolutions on Ireland submit- ted to the Blackpool conference.

speaking al ine Debate or tne Decade' earlier this year, said: I was brought up to believe crime against the Irish people, I said so on many accasions'. HELLES SLICe enris agreed to speak in public specifically on Ireland.

The LCI resolution, which the fringe meeting is designed to promate, notes, 'the evidence that the clear popular wish of the Irish peoole favours a British irom Ireland, and calls upon the mediately begin the process of this full political and military Seven of the resolutions submitted to the conference are based on this one from the LCI, but despite year in the number of constituency Labour Parties calling for a debate on irelana, there are sigus wal tne party leadership could make an attempt to have no debate at all oB re sno a due corterence.

The evidence is the 4 July issue of Labour Weekly which reports that a 'working party' on the North of Ireland, set up at last year's conference, will not now make its final report Weekly, could persuade this year's 'conference managers' o corolous to de dererred pending the working party's findings'.

in Benn says PATROL-OTCAL TRA

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