the left for a long time will take place in London.
The Campaign Group of MPs, including Margaret Beckett, Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, and Dennis Škinner, are sharing a platform with the Campaign for Labour Party Committee, and the Labour Party Black Sections. It is the most important meeting of the left in the party, and the left in parliament, since the Benn deputy leadership campaign of 1981.
The impetus to the meeting both in the campaigns last months organised themselves Liason (LLL). as affiliates observers tion the Party Black for (CLPD)
paign for abnd Rights other The clearly has SLILIL become the LUsI the the on group OI MPS itself been development.
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that Since the Campaign group has undergone a significant development. It, and its leading members, have come out mains Accord, eA Accord favour of Black Sections.
Meanwhile it has launched monthly Campaign Group News.
It is these political steps have created the the Women's Action basis for cooperation between the campaigns in the party and the Campaign group of MPs. All the maaor well as Labour Ley, well Liason, have made it clear that they are not interested in the politics of style a situation where papers, such Tribune or Socialist, attempt to give supporting women or black people, for example, but conceal the fact that they refuse to their demands ithin the part In a publicity leaflet Campaign Group Ann Pettifor, member of the WAC exMarc Wadsworth, national chair of the Labour Party Black Section made almost exactly the same points. That Campaign Group has, mas comme to open is pages to the campaigns in the party to speak in their own words.
Ann Pettifor stated: "There IS virtually no political space for women occupy within . our Campaign group News offers womer space which they themselves can control. Women should write for it and read it.' Marc Wadsworth wrote: " welcome as a signiticant step forward the .Campaign group's decision to support constitutionally recognised Black Sections the Party. Campaign Group News provides a lesson for all publications in the labour movement by giving us the opportunity speak our behalf in its columns.' This is with points which campaigns in the party have made on Marc Wadsworth, recently pointed out: 'Tribune have a long record of excluding black people from writing their own behalf in their pages. Having one column by a black Prospective Parliamentary Candidate is not how you genuinely reflect a pluraliLy o1 Diack Dollical • opinion in the Black legitimate voice for all black of the party but all black . people get from Tribune is white people writing about us.
pointed out: How about Black Section having a regular column write ourselves? They want to which individuas views they carry. We want and our collective demands — as a group and not as individuals.
The basis on which campaigns have begun to work with Lne Campaign group on certain issues, is that the Campaign group is the only section of the PLP which supports demands of these camJalals A great deal of hype and rhetoric has been for comingrom Kinnock and his supporters on the demands of women. black people on freedom for Ireland, on democracy in the party, and other issues, whatever have been taken by Tribune, the Tribune group of MPs, etc.
Campaign Group News is the monthly paper published by the Campaign Group of Labour MPs. It has recently expanded from four to eight pages. Reports and articles movement acavis. rIce 20p, from Campaign Group c/o Alan Meale, House Commons, London SWIA OAA.
The campaigns in the party, are being led to link with the Campaign group in pursuit of com mon objectives The meeting on 22 July when the Campaign group will some of the most imporlant campaigns in the pardemands explaining their own their own will logica development this All this is beginning to bicaie me Vasis lol a lajo restructuring of the left within the party. The major campaign in the party are able to begin to coor dinate their activity, in the CLPs in particular, through the LLL. Campaign group has developed its own politics annered paper which is able to be a plat torm for these campains The obvious next step is to deepen these ties and to begin link these developments into the unions.
It is to be hoped that this type of development will begin to come out of the meeting on 22 July.