WOMEN for Ireland scored an important victory last week at the national executive committee.
David Hughes, the national agent, had referred a resolution on discussion on grasslu the Greate London conference to the NEu This was an attempt to prevent its implementa tion and stop discussion.
The resolution simply calls for 'open and wide ranging discussion throughout the labour movement on the withdrawal.' It says the discussion should be Tony Benn's Withdrawal Bill published last summer.
Hughes reported on the immediately taken up by iony benn. It the NE working group Witch d • SOrt: of DeoDlE during its deliberations couldn't the rank file? Obviously there's one law for the leadershp another for the membership.
Tire ebjection raised Hughes was • that le: restions of the i movers of the resoletion unclear. All that was decided was that the London executive com should te asked for clarification of intentions' This has now been relegated to the minutes of the committee stage no further action is proposed. In other words progress has been made It is clear that David Hughes in particular was taken by at the amount of opposition to his original letter freez ing tae resortuon. Mos important it shows the need to get resolutions through women's sec tions, genera commit. tees and so on and th weight they can hav Mort information Women for ireland, c/o Feminist Library, Hungerford House, Victoria Em. bankment, London WC2.