THE CAMPAIGN for Labour Party Democracy's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is now complete. The smaller size of this year's conference reflects the first decline in membership since CLPD was formed.
Last years CLPD AGM was the scene of a bitter fight over whether to join the National Executive's register of non-affiliated groups. fight as a disagreement over future campaigning. The CLPD executive majority saw it as a 'takeover' bid.
The most important of this year's debates was the LADONE Coordinating Committee's attempt commit the campaign to 'one member, executive argued exes proposal and will prest bably win support for its postion when votes from three conferences are totalled.
This outcome indicates a rejection by the CLPD membership of the LCC's drive to take the Campaign to the right. CLPD clearly remains an organisation of the left in the party. It can continue to play a useful role in the fight for Labour Party accountability and socialist policies.
The left saw this success be of the The pure be condemocratic, nor the leadership accountable.
Today tionalism CLPD will not activists. approach to reject supporting CLPs that resist expulsions of Labour Parmembers.
Despite InIs failure however the Campaign is neither a tool of the right, nor irrelevant. But useful a role CLPD plays is not just a question of the resolutions it passes at its AGM.
CLPD's decline
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While reaffirmed demands, Campaign treasurer Schontack WAC.
debates But bitter, the all currents for We've put down resolutions for the London region asking that black activists' right to organise be recognised. And we call discussion on racism within the Labour Party. ¿ issue won't stay under the were determined Ink table, or at the back of the agenda. We hope it will be carried people have been passing anti-racist resolutions for years, and do nothing about them so we're under no illusion that it's going to be easy All black activists must campaign inside the Party, especially outside London we wils where we can: with speaker for meetinas. or hein on to mulating constitutional changes. But. in the end it's down to them to make contact with other black members in their area and begin to discuss the problem and organise locally Whichever way look, black people the bottom of the pile. It's un to black members to Black Activists' be contacted Herbert Morrison House, Walworth Road London SE17.
AND THE NEXT TIME I'LL PROBABLY AGAIN.