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ality and the lives of gay people' ONLY five resolutions on Ireland have got on to the agenda for this year's LaDour Party Conference. It is uncertain whether there will be any debate on the issue this year - the Conference Arrangements Committee may either not schedule one at all or else go back to the days not so long ago when Ireland was only given half an hour in The adoption of the falls short of the NEC's own (inadequate) document changed. The NEC document that was carried pusnea any commitment to ending partition into the indefinite future and accepted that in the meantime direct rule would continue. It also accepted that unification would be by the 'consent' of the Unionists in the artificial Northern Ireland state and thus perpetuated their veto over the Little has changed in the old enough for consent to Labour Commitee 3XX.

justify the PLP not voting against Prior's plan to set up a Northern Ireland Assembly.

There is then still a vast amount to be done to change the policy and practice of the Labour Party. The first thing we must do is to ensure that delegates are mandated to vote for the resolutions MICK WOODS REPORTS F BRENT East CLP has been going through a witch-hunt of its own in the last six months: from the Zionist establishment! Together with the local press, Tories and SDP, Zionists mounted a hate campaign against Alf Filer, Labour candidate for Cricklewood ward, during the local elections. This was provoked by an article Alf had written in the 'Brent Socialist' supporting the PLO.

But over 100 people gathered in Cricklewood last Wednesday, 15th, to hear Alf, Ken Livingstone and others put the case for the Palestinians.

Alf, who is a jew, an ex-member of a Zionist Youth movement, and who has lived and worked on a kibbutz, was able to counter those who had

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