CLPs fight!
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-09-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Luton East CLP THE RIGHT wing undemo cratic vote on Monday fo the register was a vote ag ainst socialist policies fo jobs, peace and freedom By the results of the NEI elections on Tuesday morn ing, it was obvious th witch hunt had started with a lot of comrades lik Joan Maynard, Eric Clarke and Les Huckfield.
We now have an NEI with a majority agains public ownership and nucl ear disarmament. So th clearest possibility for en suring that policies such a these are in the next mani festo rests with annut conference.
The tasks for the Left ar clear. Firstly, to unit CLPs to ensure there are n expulsions; secondly, t campaign in the unions an CLPs to gain control of th NEC in 1983; and car paign throughout the cour try to defend and exten the socialist policies w have won at conferenc over the last three years.
High priority must b given to the fight tor pos tive discrimination for wr men within the Labor Party. If the women' section of the NEC is eve again to represent the rad cal aspirations of workin women, and not the crud voting manipulations of few male right-wing trad union leaders, it must b elected at women's cor ference.
There is majority suppo in the CLPs and amon trade union members fr socialist advance. What w must do is organise to wi in 1983. The Right a determined to re-unite non-socialist Labour Par with the SDP. That is no clear. But they have r chance. For the hearts an minds of the CLPs al firm in their support f the socialist path.
All groups s on the, le owe to the CLIs and trac unionists to organise fi socialist control of our par in 1983. So let's start now.