says he has learnt his lesson. Let's hope the London Labour Party can learn its lesson quickly. By Tessa van Gelderen party, to calition agreed at conference.
Tony Benn's speech London meeting on fight openiy against the hunts in the party.
Ted Knight, Lambeth council, the meeting Party members the false membership Knight argued of the storm, meetng inat ne for London Labo 'stated the obvioi being denied to the 'THE proposed purge is really directed at all those who support tion. party policy so as to drive gooc democratic socialists out of the pave the way for a coalition between a right-wing Labour Party rump and the SDP after the next election. Such a wouo aso provide a way of ditching ail the policies by at the Labour Bri ting Saturday December, was a declaration of rights. war. Il was a declaranon to lake on the party leadership and to witchbans of icaac , had earlier in called for Labour to shoulder to shoulder with Bermondsey, shoulder to shoulder Militant tendency.' There was a 'political necessity to fight this battle now' and no-one should be asked to swear a ment oath, Ted Peter Tatchell, at the centre TOnY told the packed well: nearly hadn't defeat Submitted the offending article Briefing .. He went or Clo-Lo to say that in the circumstances where fundamental rights were stituency working orebalce class, women, ethnic minorițieș, Socialist Challenge it was absolutely correct to as extra parlamentary 'Do they want us to accept th s without a tant Tatchell asked, 'simply bacaus= don't have majority ir parlament?
Tony Benn also took up this theme when he pointed out tha'all our battles have been fough:
people demanding their rights'. Now the battle is taking place inside the party itself and people are demanding their As Tony Benn pointed out 'an overwhelming the party is equally opposed to proscriptions and vestigations into the opinions held by party members, and the many groups which exist within the party and enrich its life.' What all the speakers made clear at the meting was that the fight now taking place inside the party is about what policies are needed to oppose this governand how to get those policies accepted in the labour movement as a whole Benn summed itid 'After the catastroph! the Labour goverr ment in 1979 which followed the pation of SDP policies and the pact, neither the af filiated trade unions nor the con Labour Parties are go back policies that have failed.' 17 December 1981