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5. To strengthen the fight against the Tories and the Social Democrats by ensuring that Labour's representatives cannot deliver us into their hands by pursuing policies against the interests of working people.

6. To promote the full implementation of Clause IV Part 4 of the Party's constitution. 7. To ensure that the next Labour government is committed to a full frontal attack upon capitalism, rather than merely seeking to manage it better than the Tories. 8. To develop a strategy which will not only dismantle the economic power of the City and the multinationals, but which can overcome the problem of the massive coercive apparatus of the State obstructing a Labour government intent on implementing its manifesto policies.

9. To encourage greater awareness in the Labour party of the specific problems faced by women in capitalist society and the problems faced by gays, THIS YEAR'S Labour Party annual conference will provide the first opportunity for rank and file representation of the influential Conference Arrangements Committee, which decides which resolutions and amendments shall be included for debate and which will be ruled out of order. The rank and file have previously been denied any say in the arrangement of the procedure, and that is why many decisions taken by the party as a whole have been mysteriously reversed at the start of conference.

Unaware

This year, hower er, d gates will auto matic have the chance to elect one delegate from the constituencies section. But many of those voting are unaware of the implications that one place which is reserved for the rank and file has for the way they vote. Mandated In fact, there will be two ballots in this election. The first will be for the five places which go to both constituency and trade union nominees. But it is highly unlikely that any of those nominated by the constituencies will be elected among these five. We can expect that these places for whom delegates from the trade unions are mandated to vote. Heather Gaeble contributes our regu ar column from th Campaign for Labor Party Democracy th week.

There will then be a ond ballot, and this elec concerns only the deleg nominated by the con uencies.

Delegates may make choice only, but in our it is desirable that t voting on the second b (unless they are mande should cast their irrespective of who among the CLP nomi came top in the first bal Pete Willsman is the ¿delegate who in our has considerable k sledge of Labour Party 1 Sedure and has been 1 *inated by a numbe constituencies. We t fore urge delegates to for Pete Willsman or second ballot, regardle the result of the first bi

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