Youth CND launch Festival Appeal Fund, pictured Paul Weller, Hazel O'Connor, Joan Ruddock (CND chairperson) and Annajoy David (Youth CND national organiser) WE CAN STOP paign for Labour wing of the campaign many its most CLPD's strategy.
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their back on it.
and failed with their definition of its 'strategy".
trade union "soft centre universally detested in the Labour Party.
bitrators Unfortunately, one or another organise Such reconstituted during it, and before it. step for the left. The Annual General Meeting of the Cam Party Democracy (CLPD) voted this Saturday by a tiny ma jority to apply for registration to the After a fierce and bitter argument the right which pioneered the democracy battle in the Labour Party, also threw respected and hardworking members off the leadership for 'failing to accept decision will give great comfort to Labour's witch hunters who had virtually given up trying to use the register. Before the AGM even the Guardian a well-known champion of Labour Party астостасу, unrew digny to une winds and de as d shameless bunch of - for daring to challenge one of the most unpopular decisions the Labour Party had On the surface the argument was about whether the CLPD should abide by Labour Party conterence decisions. But it went deeper. At this AGM, CLPD broke from a role it has played for La channel for rank and file opposiThe rank and file do not want the witch hunt. Even Saturday's meeting backed a resolution from John Bloxam calling on CLPs not to carry out expulsions. It rejected a motion from the victorious right wing backing the Manchester Withington amendment to the Labour Party constitution, set up a witch hunt The support for Labour Against the Witch hunt shows that this sentiment needs a means of expression. The CLPD's new leaders have turned To justify this they ran a scurrilous campaign of abuse against their colleagues, and even tried -- to put through a motion closing CLPD membership to everyone who did not agree But by turning their back on their friends they leave only one channel open for themselves - the around Michael Foot.
Their actions have placed them in a camp which is Far from representing a 'concensus' in the Labour Party they have cast themselves as aras Michael Foot has shown, there is no point in arbitrating between irreconcilable forces — you become the prisoner of This departure leaves a gap in the Labour Party. It means that the lett now has no national unified authoritative framework through which to framework has to be - not after the general election, but The best basis for this unity - which can and should include all in CLPD — is a struggle to en sure that Labour's conference policies are included in the manifesto, above all its commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament. This is the next