Joan Maynard:
attacked Foots unilateral disarmament lan Mikardo: 'Left ware a minority for 25 years. Now we're a majority right wingers threaten to partly due to astute tactics by the left.
Late in the morning Clive Jenkins of ASTMS withdrew his union's proposal in favour of the JSDA W resolution. Tony Banks Tooting CLP followed suit first thing in afternoon. The signals All behind WCIC the USDA W resolution!
Backbone Banks pointed out that shopworkers' resolution was the most democratic onton on ofThe at the sconfer nce.
unions ale organised hackhone of the party, he argued.
Speaking to Socialist Challenge, -Tony Banks pointed out that now having a 40 per cent vote in the electoral college there will be tremendous oressure to heighten the degree of accountability in The fight for democracy and accountability in the unions 'is the next Lansman, secretary of the Campaign for LaIne Campaign for Lahave had a tremendous success, but we were lucky, he maintained.
OKH tomore the in future. fanter there we might have succeeded UNIONS like and the NUM. next objective must be the fight for democracy in the unions.
When Foot rose to summarise at the end of the conference, he received a standing ovation. The spirit of reconciliation waslicu dow the espire Foor's appeals to the right, despite his dangerous ambiguities on unilateral disarHallell. ues DIle his open invitation to Chapple and others to mount a fight to overturn the decisions taken that day, conference was determined to hear no evil.
Battles The fact that Foot owes his position leader to the hard fought battles in the unions and in the party against the right wing found no reflection in his remarks.
Nevertheless Wembley was a famous tory for the workers' movement. As Reg Race MP told Socialist Challenge: It that the left is capable of defeating those in the party who want power to remain with the PLP. All those outside the Labour Party who want to fight for socialism should take note.' Tony Benn, speaking the CLPD expresseu Street way and nave put the left in the bush.
Honor Mugabe was in bush. Now in govern.
ment that's changed.' He went on: want a cabinet that is elected. Local groups in local should have similar arrangements through about the right discuss; the right to decide the VOlC loudy the party. It will imIncrease our prospects of success.
Win As he told Socialist photos: G. M. COOKSON (Socalls! Unallenge. Challenge: "Todav's more likely Party then because it elec.
occause help bridge credibility gap ween we pro mise while in opposition and what a Labour government actually does.
It will give couragement that process of democratic change can be carried through the whole of society.
Remove From every point of view the next step is to use the victory Wembley to encourage : to remove the Tories. Democracy in the labour movement, victory of Labour over the Tories which we seek Cal. guaranteed by the mobi lisation workers' movement for the battle ahead.
action millions is required sustain such a change in our movement. Otherwise, the VICIO Wembley will ultimately be shown to have been built on sand Women that point of view one key weakness in the unity of the move at lemmos The last Wembley word should go Caroline Benn:
'There were few women speakers today. The participation women is a central part of the fight for democracy. It has hardly been touched so far. fringe their That's the all unity anite RAPTUROUS the Scargill at will he declared: the bet- disease.' Scargill publicly disagreed with Eric Heffer who claimed at the same meeting that Labour Party needed the en- socialism 'both Aneurin Bevans and of the Tony Croslands' 'The Labour Party is a broad church Scargill, 'but a broad church only socialists' Many of those at the meeting and among the delegates the day's Labour conference felt that the Labour Party had suffered enough at the hands of the Gang of Three Now was the time for them to go. and This bitter hostility towaras uwen, Rodgers and Williams can only be welcomed by socialists. Their isolation at Saturday's conference must have been painfully to them to only won support Frank Claspeor Electrician's Union, and perhaps from Engineer's leader Terry Duffy, although his speech was bumbling and coherent it was difficult to tell.
But are the plans to up democratic' party irrele vall o cabous lure! Do they have no chance ot success? he alis wei. regrettably, The moves to form a centre wally. chestrated by right wing SO Labour MPs and Liberal leader David Steel, aided and abetted by the whole of of Fleet Street, are a conattack Labour Party by the ruling class.
Eric Heffer pointed out at last Friday's rally that in 1954 the right applause greeted Arthur Friday's Rank and Mobilising Committee rally in London when needs the Gang of Three like a tree needs Dutch Elm wing in had engineered a split in the ParAustralas LOUr ty 'Democratic Labour Party' was set up the in opposition to it, as a 'creature of the press Heffer explained that this had contributed Labour being kept out of power in Australia for 20 for years. The formation of a social democratic party Dlilaili WOUl stitute an attempt by the next ruling class 'punish Labour for its move to the left, and to prevent a left Labour . government willing enough votes to come into DUWCH The 'Gang of Three saboteurs aiming to prevent une eechon orater Labour government. Sc ob- now some socass the Labour Party they respond The response of Foot is obvious; he i the desperately compromise the over unilateral nuclear and the inMarket for example, faci that it won't work such approach mere amounts backing real down face of the Joan Maynard was solutely right Friday's rally to denounce Foot's attempts to placate the right-wing by retreating on unilateralism.
Changes
the Such manoeuvre particularly appropriate time for the Cas Ine Tories. Following the Socialist Challenge changes in the electoral boundaries • presently going through parliamen: File 12 of its current sea:
This bold resul needing a seven per cer VCT figure in British elec:.-a Luca.
Tories at the next ee: tion. The creation of a "social democratic' pari! would only make that task more difficult.
Radical popular vote has always been at its highest when it has been most clearly associated radical programme.
best way defeat these aimed al creating a centre party is to press ahead with the fight for democracy and for socialist policies Mobilising the labour movement tor bring down the Tories goes hand in hand with pressing home the fight side the party these measures will con tribute to winning votes for : Labour.
Arthur Scargill that it wrong to sa' doesn't matter' and that centre party is set up. will. It could create the basis for more right wing splits, allu trade union defe tions towards Could people like. Chapple of the Electricians and Grantham APEX But to retreat because of that possibility would be to play into the hands right wing, capitulate front of their threats. After all, the 'Gang of Three' are perfectly prepared to de fend party unity and stay with Labour indefinitely if they can have their wa! politically 29 January 1981
By Davy Jones THE new Tory Nationality Bill aims to bring the outdated nationality laws into line with recent legislation to curb black immigration. It will defend the rights of white citizens and wilfully discriminate against black people.
Originally revealed in the aptly titled 'White Tories' plans are largely based on a Green Paper' drawn up by the Labour government 1977.
DOUR LaDour and Tory over the years have introduced thoroughly racist legislaton on immigration and nationality.
The 1905 Aliens Act was aimed against Jewish ¡crugees and ine Anens The Tory and Labour leaders share the issue.
Both see black immigraLIOn British culture and a contributory our economic and social problems. Accepting this racist framework leads them to propose increasingly undemocratic laws on immigration and nationality to contain the When the
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Tony Benn told Rank and File Mobilis- ing Committee rally that the fight for democracy in the Labour Party would be a long one. But 'we shall continue the fight until we win' he said.
bour Party Democracy. Lucky