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"The heavy parent: 'My dear, if the violence of those Militants succeeds in establishing the excellent principle of the deportation of the politically undesirable, well, b for one will feel that they have not lived in vain.
John Bloxam - who was National Organiser of the Rank and File Mobilising Committee for Labour Democracy in 1980-1 -argues that what we need now in the fight against the witch-hunt is a new united front of the Left, on the model of the RFMC.
WHAT NEEDS to come out of the 'Fight the Tories, not the Socialists' conference this weekend is a new version of the Rank and File Mobilising Committee which led the final stages of the battle for mandatory reselection and election of the Labour Party leadership.
Whether it will is another question.
The conference will be big. Wembley • Conference Centre will be full, and the Conference backed by "The heavy pare Militants succeed of the deportatic for one will feel Party Democracy, Socialist Organiser, Labour Coordinating Committee, Militant, etc - with each group retaining its autonomy but subordinating secondary differences to the common cause.
Unity magnified 44.40 70.00 110.00 4.00 88.00 15.00 102.50 120.00 183.00 Brighton London 35.00 TOTAL Birmingham Coventry Nottingham Leicester Northampton Cardiff/Bristo Oxford Southampton Basingstoke Miscellaneol 25p plus 15½p postage from SO, 28 Middle Lane, London N8. the statement. The Conference material gives no indication that amendments will be allowed, inquiries by Socialist Organiser to the Organising Committee have got no clear answer, and it looks like we will lace a take-it-or-leave-it statement.
Delegating bodies should certainly "take' it, but should also put pressure on the Organising Committee to run the Conference democratically and permit amendments.
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