anti-Tory the effective leadership, that THE towards words at this week's Labour Party ference were on Monday organisaThey were spoken at fringe organised right-wing this for Labour Victory. based timents of a They ex-Foreign Our friend and helper mercifully dead Shah. Said Owen:.
and this conference is going to the be extremely resolutions be passed democrațic socialist party. time promise ended fight began. There will be people are paper tigers, will accept it. We will not. There comes a time when you have to take a stand.
Owen was reacting to the many resolutions which had been passed by conference, or looked like being passed late in the week.
Motions
crensee nationalisation, substantial cut in arms expenanure troduction of a abolition education, withdrawal BEC and nuclear among them victories ANGRIEST conheard night. his co-right meeting by the Rodgers Campaign conterence for 30 years. the senDavid Owen, Leave Secretary, OT the rogance that Everybody knows which should by wonder the comand TEne Labour conferences. The say that such remarks , that we dangerously dict.
True, motions for carried. leader calling for invocated table for the immediate government.
wealth tax of private withdrawal from the unilateral and are tionalisation.
Many inroads into in Blackpool single winger Rodgers, was equally bitter.
complained that added up to the worst Labour events in Blackpool this week make democratic 'otherwise,' With a contemptuous arhas come to characterise the Labour right well he observed: 'I've been to always reluctant to come and conterences, datory happy to leave. I sometimes whether the three-year rule ought to apply to obvious in suggests that events in Blackpool represent an unqualified victory for the Labour left. That would be a mistaken verCosy the most socialist vears have been The undisputed When Tony Benn, went even further of the Labour CIL he than the motions when he ad• a one-month timeLabour The This would include abolition of the House of Lords, EEC, OI na atmosphere And on top of Hiccul this the right failed to make victory the leftish majority during the elections perspective which all this should be seen dodged up in remarks ference in from the rostrum by a member block vote of the Greater London Coun- During the debate duced radical motions, Livingstone said:
'There's not going to be a VULC these policies here today. It's the sort of motion that the party has supported for years. The question is: What are we going to do about it?' Livingstone the point that the internal reforms were needed to give the left resolutions full effectiveness, The said, just talking today' When Livingstone spoke, ty.' and when Socialist Challenge seemed unlikely that all the reforms would be passed. Only manre-selection of MPs had a better than even chance.
The consequence of the failure on the other two issues — the method of selecting the party leader and control of the manifesto - means tha whatever motions are carried they will be little more than pious statements of principle Jim Callaghan spoke on Tuesday morning, admitted much. *Policies can't be laid down in advance,' he said.
meaning of such remarks is that whatever left victories are won at Blackpool they remain victories in sentiment only. The cosy militant of the fringe will not ensure the of the left in the Labour Party, even less the left Labour question noticeably last ycal s cull Brighton the undemocratic nature of the caught up with the, left at Blackpool. vote ensured defeat of the left such as the carrying of the three-year rule, which means that Issues discussed at this year's conference cannot return to conference for three years Consequently, Tony Benn Joan Maynard, and few others have begun offer tentative criticisms of the block VULC the trade union bureaucrats who wield them "I would like to see said Joan Maynard, 'the trade union Hovelicill the fight for reforms in the par-
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