only question whether women will play a role in reshaping it.
On the actual posals made by WAC Milant present Only out serious argument against them. 'hev say they won 1 work.
the NEC elections are taken to women's conterence the pamphlet argues, then the unions will want a block vote there t00. women in the Labour Party. Militant's real position is that the women s section of the Party has not campaigned enough, and if it did 'women would automatically have more impact on the Labour Party as a whole'. True It is true that without women or youth actively campaigning their demands, positive discrimination alone is no But the UTO' blem is that women have massively vocally campaigned for their for years, and won very little response the organised movement.
All that WAC is saying is that women have already waited eighty years for the laboul movement to take the initiative, now women are going to force themselves into whether the of time is right or not. North West London platform with Labour's Irish dialogue. fight to get the British out? sentlies Roy Mason, and Don Concannon.
all so keen.
Kinnock, speaking pressure of the from the effort in London.
He missed a The consequences a nuclear free Europe.
campaign Unionist veto.
Sarah Roelofs, paign against strip searches.
it will not be forgotten there either. LABOUR EURO-CANDIDATE Pat Healy last week spoke out on Ireland, sharing her Sinn Fein's Joe Austin. This is the first ever use of an official election rally to promote For too long Labour leaders have taken for Prevention of Terrorism Act and keeping Ireland It was right and proper that once bipartisan policies had begun to be changed Labour suppor for the reunification of Ireland should be fed int Labour's candidate than a representative from the party which more than any other is leading the enthusiasm. The Tories must have thought they were home and dry when their man for the job was supported in the Irish Post (a paper which is read by Calling on Irish people to 'make their vote count' the Post heaped praise on Kilburn's Tors MEP who 'had the courage' to seperate himself from the Tory whip and abstain when the vote on Neil Heagerup's investigatory report on the North The report said nothing critical of Thatcher's No other party in the parliament (apar from the hard line unionists) voted with the Tories against it. On top of that he voted down amendtion to the abolition of trial by jury and use of strip So the pseudo-flattery of this 'man of courage was rightfully rebuffed by Labour in the election rally. Just the job for restoring the lost faith of the Irish in a party which has given them Merlyn Rees, Just the thing to rebuild Labour's election hopes. If only we were It is unfortunate that at a time of unity Neil Brussels, bowed to the SDLP and disassociated himsell good meeting. Ken Livingston said he wouldn't have come if Joe Austin was no there. Sinn Fein's election campaign was fighting against both the British and the multi-nationals for both working people and small farmers was disasterous Joe Austin said.
Irish neutrality is not at risk? Endorsing the aims of Irish CND Joe told of the protest's against Reagan's visit to Ireland and supported the call for Frank Hansen and Sheila Healy from the local constituency party outlined Brent's long running change Labour's policy to one of withdrawal from Ireland. Sheila said that despite its weakness the Forum report was seen to suppor a reunified Ireland so the Labour Party should press ahead now with a campaign to scrap the the Labour Committee Ireland's Women's Officer, explained the camThe meeting finished with Pat Healy promising that Ireland would not be forgotten in her election campaign. If elected to Europe she will make sure
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