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WHEN AND WHERE: Saturday April 3, 10.30 to 4.30, Digbetl Hall, Birmingham. For details of transport to Birmingham, phone John Bloxam on 01-609 3071.

Bernard Connolly (steel strike leader, Rotherham), Ray Davies (ISTC), Steve Longshaw (Laurence Scotts), Peter Tatchell (Bermondsey CLP), lan Williams (NUR), Bobby Owens (TGWI unemployed branch, 6/612), plus reports from women in struggle and from Women's Fightback trade union conference. SPONSORS INCLUDE: Socialist Organiser, London Labour Briefing, Oxford Trades Council, Trafford Trades Council, Basingstoke and Deane Trades Council, Oxford CATC, Laurence Scotts strike committee, Kings Cross ASLEF, CPSA ACTSS-APEX joint committee GEC Coventry, Bradford District Labour Party. Upper Stoke branch Coventry Labour Party, Nottingham Labour Briefing, Manchester Labour Left, Coventry Labour Left, and, in a personal capacity, Reg Race MP, Les Huckfield MP, and Mike Cooley.

DELEGATES: and observers invited from all labour | tials £2. Cheques payable to Socialist Organiser.

WRITE TO: Democracy Conference, Saturday APRIL 3 CRECHE: Will be available.

•Middle Lane, London N8. repeal of Rule 9.4 so that the various groups could come out into the open and argue for votes among the membership on the basis of policies and political differences.

At this time Redder Tape was composed of a number of factions. All the various Trotskyist groups, except Militant,. as well as a few Communist Farty memders were involved with it.

But there were also a large number of members owing no particular formal political allegiance who joined Redder Tape because they were fed up with all the secrecy in the CPSA.

Along with the demand to repeal Rule 9.4, the Redder Tape group campaigned for the regular election of all full-time officials. (They were all appointed for life at this time by the NEC); the circulation of election addresses so that mombers couid see on what platform those standing for election were standing on and the circulation of the NEC minules to all branches, so that members could see what individuals were up to on the NEC.

All these demands were vrhemendly attacked by the right while the left, thoug! not so virulent in: ther attacks, did nothing very positive to support most of the demands.

1he pressure areas to discredit the new rule. But the rule refuses to be discredited.

It is massively popular with the members who now feel that they have some say in who runs their unior regular election of the senior full time officials.

It is an encouraging sign for the future but we must keep the pressure up.

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