SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Concannon under attack in Mansfield

Socialist Action No. 138, 25 April 1986 · p. 5 of the scan · 200 words

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ty's AGM represented a huge step forward for the organisation of a left wing to combat * Don Concanon and his right wing mafia.

Centered around the delegates from the NUM members of WAPC, the left came within a few votes of winning the ma" jority. NUM member were elected to the execu tive committee the post of political education officer. Attempt to expel Organisations like the Committee have recently had to fight off similar attempts by Briefing sup porters to impose their wil on majorities by organisatonal manoeuvring.

It will, no doubt, be Militant supporters have also been sucessfully been resisted.

This victory resulted from a long drawn out struggle against forces support breakaway UDM. wno have maintainer sustained attack on constitutional rights of the party's members. It is the first major challenge that Concannon has ever had to face on his own home ground should welcomed and supported by the whole of the left in the Labour Party.

firmly rejected by LCI ac tivists because the work the LCI has done is too important to allow it to be squandered tarianism. Socialist Action urges its readers to support attend what promises to be very important conference.

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