THE bombing at Enniskillen has once more the essential transformation of that organisation into a front for the Clause 4 grouping.
National Organisation of Labour Students. Clause 4 thought it a big joke to utilise an association with Stalin's assassin. tione typiconsid clevel al present is plau ing stories in the Guardian Iigures left and making grossly exone rasts of figures on the Jane complete alliance with the right and operates as a sort of right wing entry group Impact This Clause 4 policy had, however, suffered blows this SEVCIC yval First an LCC consultative had voted in favour of drawal from Ireland in the Then, with greater public impact, four members the LCC executive George Galloway, Peter Hain, Ken Livingstone and Joan Ruddock — had signed a joint statement Clause 4 is an Ann Pettifor, Wadsworth from Labour Left Liaison warning about right wing pressure for a coalition Will Liberals calling for unitea action on the left.
As both the policy divion Ireland, and the position in favour of left Cul totally across Clause 4's right wing project it set about, in its usual way, organising to defeat these policies three goals at this year's LCC ĂGM - to remove left wingers from the LCC executive, prevent the LCC engaging in joint activity with other torces on the left, and to reverse the policy on Ireland.
Behind all these is a project, which Clause operate in practice, but are to openly forming Such a Clause 4 operation was possible because despite claims to the con • Ine number or acuive tremely small in number and they have little direct base inside the party. Thus Ex-Tribune editor Nigel Williamson, now editor of Labour Party News, explicitly calls for realignment between the 'soft left' and right wing in the party.
although the LCC claims a of 1500. in membersill fact only 247 people voted in the annual : elections for this year's LCC executive - an indication of the real active membership. Analysis voting for the NEC and resolutions to shows few CLPs supporting the LCC. Problem The executive elections simply returned a Clause 4 slate. The main lett wingel the LCC, Ken Livingstone, was knocked off the executive as was Mike Ward Peter Hain fell from third to seventeenth the poll out of members. As Hain was for many years probably the DCSI known figure in the LCC this shows how completely the LCC is now a Clause 4 front.
Attitude As was to be expected given Clause 4's line, the LCC also passea a resolurejecting working with others on the left notably Left Liaison.
On the policy front most significantly • its future direction the LCC AGM then on to overturn, votes to 50, its consultative conference position for British withdrawal from Ireland the lifetime of parliament. The AGM instead carried Clause 4.Workers Parti resolution accepting British withdrawal.
Facts The outcome of the AGM was clear. The LCC has been transformed, fol all practical purposes, into a front for * ne Clause 4 grouping which has a con • proiect of a bloc with the right. The LCC has lost whatever character grouping of the left it had The LCC, taken as a whole, is no longer in ans real sense a part of the left
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THE ANNUAL general meeting of the Labour Coordinating Committee (LCC) on 14 February saw
ex-student group, associated with figures such as Nigel Stanley, whose politics is summarised by their famous 'Operation Icepick' against Militant in the
Answer Clause 4 therefore had