Backtrack on contro of manitesto
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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GLC Labour leader Ken Livingstone hailed THE old left wing (or supposedly left-wing) NEC went out, not with a blaze of glory, but with an inglorious whimper.
Its last action was to switch its line to oppose NEC control of the Party manifesto. After this switch - decided on the casting vote of acting chairperson Judith Hart - there is a good chance that Michael Foot may be able to retain the leader's veto on the. manifesto, used by Harold Wilson to throw out nationalisation of the top 25 companies, and by James Callaghan to delete abolition of the House of Lords.
the Benn vote as an advance years ago Healey was the next Labour Prime At the start of the campaien we were told that Benn would get oneThe conference debate on Wednesday afternoon.
Democracy On the other big issue of Party democracy before the conference - reforming the Standing Orders of the PLP to enable its decisions, and voting on them, to be properly recorded - the NEC had already decided to recommend against reform.
But the victories for Party democracy so far have been won with very little help from the NEC. New victories can still be won, if the Left organises and takes the fight into the unions. third of the vote, and even the left comrades organising the campaign underestimated his support in the trades unions and the CLPs.
The transformation of the Labour Party into a socialist party is clearly irreversible now that process has begun."
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list Organiser. Thursday 1 October 1981 Page 6 etters
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"It's a majot achieve- ment for the left. Three
Minister - now clearly he's a spent force.