Scotland in Perth 8-10 March. allocated for resolution on the miners' strike.
headed rights', the majority democratic controls over the police force.
a central theme.
Suitable resolutions include those burgh East (No 66) that implicitly criticises parliamentary leadership for not fully backing the dispute and from SOGAT '82 (67), reaffirming TUC September policy of full support. rect though this is in prin should concentrate above aspect of the agenda is that government that holds onTo an extent this may reflect the correct assess ment in the Scottish labour movement that the strug gle against the Tories is necessarily UK-wide that level. Yet just be won at that level. sider what would have RESOLUTIONS ARE now out for the first of Labour's regional conferences held for the nation of The most obvious feature of the agenda is that there is no section as headed lets ments in ons and 21 men unions and citizens of which concern lack of But it is LUC past five years Toryism a Labour majori ty in an Assembly in Edinburgh.
Hillhead Labour Party been revolutionarv socialists are from the many eleanon outlined in the recent executive statement The strategy for non-compliance and it's been campaigned for most just now by such councils as Edinburgh and Stirling Regrettably no rates rises has not yet been plac ed alongside other demands, doesn't feature in any resolution al Perth. Such a line insisting ficke government make up on socially spending, is the necessary only way to maximise uni ty against government and avoid exacerbating the sor of split it's child play for the only way to maintair Hopefully Perth will begin to organise a rea united fightback co-ordinated by councils.
It's unfortunate, perhaps deliberate, that the agenda separates the issue of abortion from the section rights, placing the one resolution on the subject beside 15 on Health Service. Hopefully this doesn't presage an ex ecutive attempt to avoid substantial Aberdeen Women's Council's (91) that reaffirms support for comprencisive abortion service available BICOUCSI through the NHS and deplores the fact that wasn't part of the 1983 election manifesto There are nine resolu tions on defence. Most ol these call for resistance to civil defence and promo tion of alternative employ ment. CULT prehensive reaffirmatior of is fron Springburn (114)
Unfortunately doesn't deal with key ques tions like how far this sit beside the NEC documen passed overwhelmingly Blackpool last year or hot to mobilise support of the disarma campaign. Labou CND hopes to deal wit the first question at its fr meeting Friday March 7.30 which will tak the form of a discussio between signatories of tha document Robin Coo and George Roberson opponents Jot Marton
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