issues on which today united action indeed possible TOI examo e the campaign of the Black demands within the party.
programilie called for the replacement or lue bonce ov a workers militia, political revolution 'Stalinist and action to 'smash the system itself.
As broad united front paper' evidently cannot be based on such a declarations regarding maintaining the character of Briefing meaningless.
advertisement second year PUBLIC SEMINARS But more serious is the increasingly sectarian is now being promoted.
This came out clearly in the claims at the conference that the Justice for Mineworkers campaign had been taken over by a combination of the Campaign Group, Socialist Action the Communist Party' because it had rejected Briefing's model resolutions the 1UC and Labour conferences. These would have committed the campaign to calling for resolutions publicly censuring the destructive .ot the cam. paigns involved. The decisions of the Brieting conference accelerates this self-imposed isolation.
The local Briefing groups represented at the meeting were clearly unhapov with many of its decisions particularly relection of their quest for local groups to have the final decision on any change in Briefing's was also ported to the conference that no Briefing groups exist north of Birmingham.
In reality, of course the left in major areas of the ing buy to khe Cao Baig/ing but to Campaign group of MPs, the Scargill of the NUM, the Wille Black Section and so on Increasingly local Campaign groups being established. Briefing simply cannot provide any sort of framework for the left and is particularly incapable of doing so with its politics. CALS new sedi tarian turn in almost all campaigns wil deepen its isolation further.
When number of supporters of Socialist Action decided to leave its editorial board last year the national project they counterposed to it Briefing This was a sectarian turn. And during the last six months Briefing itself has greatly deepened its sectarianism.
Surely it is time for the comrades who embarked on this disasterous policy to reconsider its increasing seclallai course restate their Socialist Action This Briefing conference is cer. tainly going to deepen tner sectarlan Isolaton which is a loss.