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

Silkin bites off more than he can chew

Socialist Challenge No. 274, 17 December 1982 · p. 2 of the scan · 378 words

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uses the union's premises. Mistake number one. The meeting then heard an impassioned plea from Jack JOIC for participation on the board: and journalists Sheila March and Sheila Noble retained their places on the board The final result is thus directors All this on the spurious grounds that CLPD was set up make Annual Conference decisions binding.

Comrade Schonfield should look his membership card again. Mine states: *We believe that policy decisions reached by Annual Conference should be binding the Parliamentary Labour Party and underLaKC LU -SCCULO the plementation of this principle.

It is one thing to de mand that the PLP im plements agreed policy. I is another to ask us to go along win our own expul the Party CLPD which Mullin's supporters still have a built-in majority. But Silkin will be back or more However, he doesn't seem LO I careful about his base or support. Depor Labour Party, his own rumoured to be discussing should defend ourselves from measures that seek to destroy democracy in the Party.

Sad It is a sad state of affairs that Victor Schonfield should decide to use more akin to Sid Weighell and the Right in his attacks on other CLPD members. But since then the CLPD EC has compounded these errors by demole that the AGM agree to register.

Action AGM last weekend oppos ed the register and *exoutrageous antics. Taking a leaf from John Spellar's book - his constituency. has demanded that Tribune journalist Nigel Williamson be expelled from his own con SULUCCY DarCY CUVISE might well be advised to get motions sent to Dept ford supporting the idea.

concern that th -registe regardless of the ballot The dispute has reach. ed a pitch whet Why the even a split is possible. itself is nearly deadregister when the Perhaps the last EC cue 2 OBEE motion against expulsions was amended so that the Executive would recommend defiance of expulsions. Yet this is the key issue facing CLPD: will it be an effective force against expulsions defen ding parties like Hornsey? Or will the tactics of those like Shonfield split destroy the campaign?

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