that the PLP and the NEC are no longer simply out of Som en in the LPs or even step with views the National Women's Organisation, but are increasingly out of line with policy the mainstream trade unions.
The changes in the unions have added weight to the pressure for prochanges in the _abour Party Kinnock and Hattersley claim their policy review is about "modernising" the party, but the refusal to take on board the need to update the party on women goes in exactly the opposite SECCLO!
This is why LWAC has been correct to arque all along that the key to up dating the party's polic and positions on women, is to create a powerful Labour Women's Organisation with real weight and influence in the pazes proposal have won out because they are the most serious proposals to come forward in the context of the actual choices available.
IWAC In responses to the Re view of Women's Organisathe right of women to elect the women's section of the NEC, with only one third of trade unions which responded registering support for the status quo.
The real fight now is for the results of the Review to be taken on board by annual conference and the NEC, and implemented.
Unfortunately every indication — from the narrow concerns poncy Known portion of Kin- through the nock on the women's orthat the 12nIS21C NEC and the PLP are reso lutely against greater power for the women's organiSOLO. Despite the clear view coming from some unions and CLPs for change in the women's organisation there is huge resistance from the right. Unions like the ABU