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will be effectively proscribed. Back will come the surveillance techniques and the secret files in the National Agent's Department, This clearly will divide the party, and present legitimate groupings organising for specific objectives within the party branches, women's sections and affiliated organisations in Manchester to fight this witch-hunt."

At the EC meeting where the resolution was proposed by Socialist Organiser supporters and discussed, the chairperson of the DLP, himself a Militant supporter, proposed that this resolution should not be taken, owing to it being out of DLP's standing orders.

After delegates insisted that the resolution be put, a vote was taken and only one person - the leader of the Labour Group - voted Single At the DLP meeting itself the motion was passed without a single vote against. Comrades who spoke pointed out that Militant were not the target for the purge Greater Manchester area.

All Labour Party' activists in Greater Manchester should work to ensure that 40p plus postage from Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8 THE Labour Abortion Rights Campaign Annual General Meeting on Saturday June 26 decided unanimously against registering under the NEC proposals.

'We believe that LARC cannot register except by rendering itself ineffective as a campaign, because registration will require us to open our meetings to anybody, whether they agree with us or not and to alter our Constitution to admit people who do not agree with our aims. It would provide any given NEC with unacceptable arbitrary powers to decide on the eligibility of LARC to register."

LARC is now going to ballot the whole of its individual and affiliated membership on this.

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and the Labour democracy fight for a WORKERS Socialist GOVERNMENT Organiser