CND conference and the Communist Party

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conference (18 November), your description Cox (the didate for chairperson) as a veteran Communist Party campaigner suggestion that Joan Rud Viet ory the decline the grip of the CP on the apparatus of the movement are neither curate about CND TO SORROY nor acJohn is no bogus campaigner who vould pu Socialist Challenge 10 December 1981 page 14 Indeed the converse is OBO SEE AU3SBASII SUBSE enemies in the CP by supporpolicies where there has been CND's interests a conflict. Ace athe grip of the CP apparatus casier than substantiate, a organisations found when LICY HAVE ATE tempted to mount a smear campaign. Jays but, to the bes knowledge in the time I have 1976) (since the CP have never had a majority of either Council Further CND refreshingly free of the scc UCCI turian, wampurive polic where groups compete to seize control of the organisation.

So why is Joan Ruddock chairperson? Many delegate must have found the choic