THE Wales Labour Party conference month LOOK place al a lime mounting and national tension. Central to the debates was the Issue of the avas altu the role of the Labour Party in this colonial war.
The Labour Coordinating Committee ‹Ll) aelegates on tne executive agreed to a resoluCalle lllmediate ceasefire, mutual withdrawal with UN intervention, ULUD economic sanctions. The conference referred this back to the executive. The resolution replacing it-called for an immediate ceasefire UN intervention and wa much weaker the omission of Britain relinquishing sovereignty.
about Nothing Foot and Healy was said tailending the Tories and it Socialist Challenge was only Joan Maynard bringing the National Executive who spoke clearly for British withdrawal.
In the dramatic witchhunt debate, organisation around clear cocause ponces neved co bring about a defeat for light LACI ICEL has been given for the right to attack the left.
Instead of arguing for the transport unions to follow national bolev and support the and motion left aghed to the withagreed the drawal of the resolutions.
When the General and Municipal Workers Onion Tensed to remove resolltion calling for investitalin 'the various groups within the party' the left was caught 11 June 1982 page 6 with its politics down. The vulturit Was siderable defeat for the left with the GMWU and the engineers union voting for proscriptions and witch-hunts, and the TGWU abstaining.
The miners union had more success with Tebbit's Emlyn 1 ObObal Williams Wales NUM president, forcefully put the miners to the forefront of this fight in the South this bill,' said Williams, "the government intends first to shackle the trade unions and then destroy inem The first attacks will be on the weakest link in the chain; any other trade union Water allacked receive our immediate supDOLL. organised and united, need not fear this bill.
The Cardiff North proposal calling upon the Wales LP 'to SUDOOr extraparliamentary action in addition to parliamentary action as a means of fighting for jobs' was cluded in composite resolution on unemployment in Wales. This has implications for the struggit against 1 eboll, as Joar Maynard pointed out.
'Extra-parliamentary action will be necessary to get rid of 'the Tebbit bill. Many of rights have been won by extraparliamentary action; it is complementary and not opposed to parliamentary ac tivity. There are only two sides society and you have to decide which side you are on Sane don't preach class war, they're much Dusy practising it.
Despite supporting disarmament for a 'campaign for the closure of all and American nuclear bases In Wales, the blatantly undemocratic nature of the conterence was a real obstacle to debate.
The LCC, total disarray, played by the right's rule book even when all democratic principles were being tampled on. It did not • pOllucal organise itself conterence, as support for a future incomes policy under Labour showed.
The result was a fore gone conclusion. The LCC has hardly any representation on the Wales LP executive and has to rebuild itself with stronger trade union roots. can be brought to bear on our councillors, which councilor ment as required Credentials from Jim Ring, 55 Stonard Rd London N13, Price £1.
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