IMGpapers 1980–83

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

CLPD Reply to Vladimir Derer

· Socialist Challenge No. 281, 16 February 1983 · p. 8 of the scan · 288 words

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Campaign for Labour Party Democracy the campaign's Annual General Meeting. Vladimir Derer's letter it looks as if he, for one, has not accepted this decision.

Coming from a section of the Party who also packed Conway Hall - with some very dubious allies indeed on the basis of support for all Labour Party conference decisions, there is an alarmhypocritical drift Wades ener. wnetner ne regards this amenament as acad as tar as CLPD is concerned.

In my opinion he also misjudges the trade unions who last year. They wanted peace in the party, and were duped into believing the register would produce this. In fact the opposite has happened, and now the field is wide open for scrapping the register and winning support for the Socialist Challenge 18 February 1983 page 8 LET'S GET one thing very clear about Vladimir Derer's letter last week. The Manchester Withington amendment (the 'sanitised register') was defeated at Greenwich amendment - if only the whole of the left can pull together to work for this.

In my six years as Hiccuss organiser, have always worked from my own home, spending many hours writing letters and making phone calls to send speakers all over the country. Moreover the almospnere in io, rark Dave has been so poisonous for the 8ST - MORENS tha don't blame anyone who had slightest difference with the Derers not being prepared to work there the tone Vladimir's letter, it looks as if the CLPD minority are in for further rough time defeated AGM decisions are resurrected in new forms! policies from theirs. It means that instead ot uniting with the water workers and CND to fight the Tories, Labour's resources are turned against its own member-

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