HAPPY 1981 | Socialist Action 1983

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Say no to OMOV BEFORE the election, *the Labour NEC circulated a 'consultation paper' to all CLPs and affiliates on procedures for selecting parliamentary candidates.

Despite the • intervention of the general election, local parties are still expected to respond by the end of July." That means that organisations must consider the matter during their current round of meetings.

The NEC's their local parties even on the limited level that The vast majority of the 11 options offer some sort of direct ballot of party members. They would take power out of the hands of the body to which an MP regularly reports and aggregate it n une nades or mie parliamentary eadership.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a special broadsheet on the consultation exercise. It gives the options before CLPs and a model response to the consultation, together