LAW Council backs Heffer and Meacher | Socialist Action 1983

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A Piece of the Action Some mornings None ord No more politics I•am fed up with . I will never, I think, altend another political meeting -or march-or read another A PACKED meeting of Against the Witch Hunt's National Council agreed on Saturday 2 July to back Eric and Veil Kinnock for the leadership and deputy leadership of the party.

The meeting was one of the most representative cobwess 2111 * PAN. The meeting held; nearly sixty meeting identified this year's leadership and NEC elecnons as une the party's the disastrous record of John Golding's witch-hunting NEC It endorsed the CamDemocracy's slate for the / But then I shake say, What the hell.. constituency section, and appromoti - by 23 votes to — a motion from Mandy Moore not to take a position on the slate for the grounds that this slate should decided women within the party.

The meeting heard report from councillor Al Wythenshawe #17 nything's better Party on the actions taken against the by the NEC agreed to campaign nationally against them. Ballot LAW further agreed to oppose the use of the postal ballot in the leadership elections, to call a fringe meeting on Saturday night before the Labour Party conference, to seek speakers on the platform large September rallies being organised b Tribune in support of Heffer and Meacher, to further its campaign for the Greenwich amendment to the party constitution and Tor reinstatement expelled editors of • Mili. lant.

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