confirmed very strongly the role which is now played in the party by Labour Left Liaison The first index was simply the size of its fringe Labour Party conference was attended by 150 peo. ple. This year, held on the eve of the NEC elections, 600 people attended its meeting.
The weight of the campaigns in LLL was also seen on the conference agenda. Well over 100 resolutions and amendments on the agenda came from the campaigns in the LLL.
In the NEC elections it was candidates most identified with key campaigns in the LLL — Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone — who did well in the Group was also the most effective for several years and directly responsible for ensuring the left, not Bryan Gould, was really successful in the CLP section. Of 115 CLPs voting for three women candidates in the NEC elections, showing its importance in promoting women canLLL members were also able to take an important political initiative prior to Labour Party conference in the 'left unity' statement signed jointly with members of the LCC. This political impact in helping put the lid on talk of coalition in the Labour Party — if only because it created fear of a united left to oppose any such move. Ine statement also oroke down sectarian divisions on the left which the right deliberately manoeuvre of the left inside the party.
In short an extremely powerful political instrument has been created in the LLL. But it is one that has had to be fought for tamist attacks from the LCC from the outside, which wanted to talk of positive action and other issaes bat deliver nothing i practice. witra leftism from Labour Briefing, which word have put the left in a ghetto and smashed it.
'the ILL now has to use the infinence it is creating to help turn around the situation in the party during the next year. A year ago the LCC fringe meeting at The joint slate for the NEC • both against oppor-