[A YOUNG unemployed worker enters the Queen's bedroom…]

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A YOUNG unemployed worker enters the Queen's bedroom, draws back the curtains, and engages her in conversation about their respective families.

The poor man is deranged it appears - deranged for taking as the truth the message of the Daily Trash, the Sunday Quarrel and Evening Escapist that 'the Royals' are just like us. He has fallen for the Royal Wedding hysteria, the easy informality of the 'Charles and Di photos, and the matronly monotony of the Queen's Christmas broadcast. How deranged can you get!

The Queen, the symbol of privilege, wealth, and snobbery, has had the dreadful experience of being addressed directly by an ordinary worker, so crazy that he did not touch his forelock, how, stammer, blush or faint.

The response of the ruling class royalists predictably outraged. The Director of Public Prosecutions has been asleed by the Militant, Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, Labour Committee on Ireland, Labour Coordinating Committee (Scotland), the Socialist Organiser Alliance, London Labour Briefing, Women's Fightback, National Left Wing Youth Movement, Labour Parliamentary Association and Socialist Challenge. The Labour Abortion Rights Campaign AGM passed :. a motion not to register, and NEC's proposals - the principles of which are accepted in the argument - the only thing such proposals threaten to wreck is the resistance to the register.

If people who have played a leading role in the fight for democracy end up, like the LCC (England), selling the left down the river in the fight against thé register, it will be a major blow for the right wing. recapture of the NEC has played a major role in the launching of a witch-hunt. It is essential that that control is wrested back from them at this year's Party Conference.

Nominations have to be in by August 13. To maximise the chances, Labour Liaison 82 reached some agreement on a left slate for this year's elections.

Socialist Organiser supports this slate on the