AFTER LAST YEAR'S debacle, the 1984 annual meeting of the Campaign promises altogether. In fact, it promises to be three quiet afgregated meetings.
many activists -There are a lew con troversial items an otherwise straightforward agenda: one person one vote, con ference voting strength slipped in by Clause 4?
Young Socialists. rightist positions within these debates reflect the LCC influence inside the Campaign.
No agreement has been reached in CLPD on party unity and the witch hunt. A resolution from the Executive, priorities, patently fails to make up its mind: AGM recognises that the Party's top priority has become Unity and winning This LOe does not mean abandoning our goal of accoun tability. It does mean that we must take account of this factor when pressing for our aims..
the Executive dodges the central az all Issue: how cant there be unity around party policies and the new leadership, when the continuation of the witch hunt is precisely a threat by the new leadership to those very policies?
In place of a tirm posttion, the EC proposes campaigning to I Cul the arbitrary powers of the NEC for "impartial conditions' haid down constitutionally.
for Labour Party be quieter affair voting at each of these conference, attenThis does not deal with the issue which broke CLPD'S back in 1983.
Other resolutions make explicit CLPD's conundrum. They call for a specific committment to support Inose consuluchcies which have refused to comply with the making clear that unity, and hence Labour's electoral chances, damaged by expulsions.
second resolution commits the Campaign to fighting for positive prorights of individuals and posals safeguard the groups inside DalLy. Both these resolutions The LUC-CLPD dif ferences clearly reflected Onc member one vote resolutions. The Executive main opposed to an il which achocial would have the effect of making Labour's leaders less, not more, accoun table.
None of the opposing positions go so far as to suggest a postai ballot. Instead, they offer systems of branch voting ag gregated to arrive at the consuluency s choice.
There are great problems WILl least of which is that the system your name and address.
The active members should This cuts which isn't lost.
passes constituency Bae countable general Constallice HE UTIS the MPs leaders served which branch the general This curstilucil cies committee anne main body of risk of developing breast cancer So why are all these revelations just emerging about the wonder-drug of the seventies? Because all of us guinea-pigs are ber, and Vladimir Derer, On this basis there -seems no supchange voting balance at conference cy parles for year, that the vote.
This completely ducks out of the issue of democratising the unions. Further , in a year Tebbit laws when threaten the foundations ot Labour's relationship with the unions, such would seem calliDalk premature and optimistic It would be far better for organisations like CLPD to take up a campaign to urge trade union members to opt into the political levy.
final, naughty, resolution o eserve brief mention: proposal the Young Socialists by allowing:
wose UDOI oranches HOLI • Supporters who want a say in the Campaign's fate must register to attend an one of the three AGM. before Saturday January