By Tessa van Gelderen, reporting from Brighton Party.
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The orowing opposition to this right wing ICEECTSIID demonstrated throughout the first day of the conference. The successful reference back of the Conference Arrangements Committee report the -0030 MOD OROARE SUNDAY NIGHT at Brighton saw the most extraordinary victory for the left of the Labour By a margin of less than one per cent surprised everybody. given the decision of the public vote for Healey. The margin of the defeat was less than the vote of 5 who abstained have a lot to The result shows clearly that this is not a victory for Healey or the right wing and their policies. Michael Foot and the shadow cabinet have collaborated with Healey throughout the campaign. The final vote was in fact a massive vote of no confidence in the present leadership on positive discrimination WEs CnemeC10n The failure do lhd wing stalwards Weighell and Bill Sirs to get onto the discussion on updatine the bans and proscriptions was another.
But the result of the Michael Foot openly endorses right wing election showed that the for socialist policies has not been taken deep enough into the trade Benn failed to organise a strong enough fight.
Such a fight is essential if the left is to go forward from this conference. It •ESTE-EO AO OUUEA calities or by manocuvring 1OT TU OEHGL YOLG.
Benn and his supporters are right to point to the campaign of vilificaHOR WSE SS OCCLLaU ched against them, particularly by the DES2S barons.
Of course Benn is right when he said immediately after the result •When Roy Jenkins lost ington, Fleet St hailed it as a great victory. we mus recognise that what we ve achieved today is a great VICTOLY HiT ne DreSSECVL be on the side of the workTony Benn: 'Result is a victory for left' Wing class Benn begins to get it right when he said: 'If we are going to win this we have to take the fight out to the people, or the street corners and build factory branches'