moves to set up a string of all-Ireland institutions prior to eventual withdrawal.
No timetable is set on this provess and the programme has many internal weaknesses, particularly on how to deal with loyalist demands to turn a 'federal system' into a repartitioned sectarian state. Certainly it falls a long way short of Irish self-determination, free from conditions.
Nevertheless, it will be this paper that will form the basis for discussion over 1985-6 and it is expected that time will be set aside for a major debate at the 1986 conference. Not fast enough? Agreed. But if the trade unions are to adequately discuss the various options, then there has to be a serious discussion and that takes time.
The LCI's aim is to make sure that, in the discussion, the withdrawal alongside the consent option to be argued from the NEC. That is why resolutions to London region conference and Labour women's conference concentrate on circulating the statement of Irish trade unionists calling for unity and independence, and the Tony Benn 'Withdrawal Bill.
We are in favour of the widest possible discussion which is why we propose the circulation of these texts ana me mvitaton of speakers representing parties of the Irish working class, British interference or option is aired including HISTORICALLY in lesbian self-organisation has always been minority interest.
Lesbians have been scattered through the women's movement and recently une gay movement. There we have found necessary organise independently to get lesbian demands taken of senousty straight women's homophobia or gay men's sexism.
The immense pressure on women to relate sexually to men (and therefore the nuclear family, the radical feminist purist idea that a woman is only a lesbian if she never sleeps women from coming out and organising politically. So the emergence of two LICW Lesbians Against Pit Closures (LAPC) and the Labour Lesbians - - have marked a great step forward for lesbians in the labour moveThe experience groups like Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and LAPC proves that the movemen. ing money for the miners, supporting demonstrations, visits to pit villages we built more concrete links and raised more support than been achieved in the last decade or more.
This was exemplified in teaR received from the support message NUM at the last Labour NUM sponlact what tne sored the ILGSM conference last March.
While aiming to combat the sexism of LAPC has built closer links with members of Women Against Pit Closures. We have now been asked to organise a workshop at the women's solidarity
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organise for esbian marinets is in the labour