FOR A SATER the party could be : expelled. He asked 'Did the leadership really think that Fleet Street would start to call for vote for Cheryl Varley, one of the Liverpool eat oy members under threat expulsion was invited to address the meeting, won resounding applause when she condemned the leadership for backing the courts and not those fighting for better conditions for working class people Ann Henderson, executive member of the Women's Action Commitwithin the LLC. This view sees the LLC as somehow standing above the autonomous campaigns and taking majority votes. Briefing's views were very much a minority in terms real forces represented. Decisive However the present structure of the LLC is be Ing austu lo prevell Wa real relation of forces, and the right way forward for the LLC expressing itself.
The present structure of LLC is based on one vote for each organisation newspaper within it. This that organisation or newspaper supported by people, for example, has the same vote as CLPD WAC DaCK section, who represent thousands of people Votes were pushed through the LLC meetings where a number of small groups band together outvote forces with infinitely more weight in the world outside the LLC's meetings. Briefing takes two out of the four places on the LLC steering group tee, spoke of the need for the right for women to decide themselves which policies they put before the Labour Party. She wor oud applaus when she called for support for th shadow elections conducted by WAC the five women's places on the NEC.
Bric Clarke, secretary of the Scottish NUM, urged everyone to get out and talk fundamental policy, to tell people that there is a real alternative Although the con ference was a shift to the right the attendance at the tringe meeting was a majo success for the left in the the black section, other forces with weight on the socialist left such as Socialist Action.
Its next meeting will decide the direction future of the LLC The LLC now has the possibiliof fulfilling a useful function In coordinating and initiating united ac tion by quite sustaina forces on the left wing ci L Labour ally. individual issues like sup port for the black section support for WAC's camJala the Women' Conference ic elect the women's section of the NEC. building on the opposition witch hunts, and other issues the LLC can help reach out to much wider sections of the labour movement.
But to achieve this re quires restructuring democratising the LLC on three clear bases. Firstly functioning by agreement and therefore respect for the autonomy of the campaigns. Secondly the LLC based most authoritative issues campaigns in the LLC.
Thirdly an inclusive not exclusionary method of functioning.
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