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J.K. O'Reilly, National Officer, NUAAW:

"It's a defeat but it's not a disaster. The result was close enough to prevent the right wing rolling back the policies. Our delegation was split 8-4 in favour of a vote for Benn, but the union's executive had opted for abstention. In the end the delegation The fight now is for union democracy - but democracy based on the branches, not on some kind of postal ballot that would hand control over to the We need branch discussion and involvement, more political education of the membership.

It's shown where people stand. That bastard -a e-s exoosec' followed the executive's line.

Tory press.

Kinnock ..." «Well it's a victory for the media. Tony Benn has been branded as responsible for the crash of the Stock Exchange and for the bubonic plague.

But a lot of people have been exposed for what they are.

What disgusts me in particular has been the role of the . Tribune Group - Kinnock and But i where is the 'hear, hear' policy more evident than on the H-Block issue. The British Labour Party should not allow itself complacently to adopt the bankruptcy that infects other British political parties' thinking.

Is it not embarrassing when the Labour Party spokesman for Northern the others.

It does question whether the Tribune Group has a future. Perhaps we should try to start up a Socialist Group in the PLP.

Look at the coverage given to Kinnock's article in Tribune - nearly two whole pages. Michael Meacher was only given half a page to reply -and | wrote a letter oriented, undemocratic measures? We are the people Amnesty International spoke of when they said that torture was a commonplace practice in Castlereagh - torture the purpose of which was to extract a written confession for production as damning evidence at the Diplock