every parliamentary The implications of ins victory are immense. Firstly, the composite says there must be at least one on every parliamentary shortlist. Renee snort. the debate for the NEC, indicated that should be included 'where nominated', but this is not in the composite adopted by conference. No conditions for the inclusion of women are attached. This is the first of the demands of LWAC ever to be passed-by Labour Party conference.
This decision will impact massively on all those regions with safe Labour seats. Regional organisers will be obliged to enforce the ruling and bring parties into line.
Early on in the selection process parties will have to search for women candidates in order to ensure that there is one the shortlist. The resistance to this will undoubtealy intense, despite the decision This eike walles, se iland and Wales, Scotland West. But this resistance will be broken untortunately too late to get 150 women into the IN 1979 Islington South and Finsbury sent a resolution to the Labour women's conference in Malvern, calling for at least one woman to be included on shortlist. The delegate was howled down and the proposition ruled out of order by the Conference Arrangements Committee. Last week Labour Party conference finally adopted that next but in but viccapacity)
however, adopted NEC the National to 'develop proposals' system of women conterence.
resolution position the Pally adopted sixty years.
NEC.
was another victory for two fundamental questions of the structure of women's conference and the election of the women's section of the NEC. At present women's comerence nas no status authority. reason for this is that it is not fully representative of women the movement as it stituted con1cccc into the trades unions and assaulted by this debate in Come vedr buine such a sampaign ethat Hand over NEC. This is a ludicrous
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proposal, after seven years of campaigning and struggle by the Labour Women's Action Commit- tee. And it went through with a massive majority.