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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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THE deadline for Labour Party conference resolutions is July 8: branch meetings.
su move fast, or your local Labour Party will miss its chance.
The Labour Committee on Ireland, the Labour Campaign of leadership facing the working class. for Gay Rights, and Labour CND are circulating model resolutions which SO supports. We are also backing the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy's resolution on the 'Greenwich armament, and is all for the witch-hunt. amendment' about the right for groups to organise within the And we have our own model resolution on fighting the Tory government: •The Labour Party has a duty to fight to protect the living leader. standards and rights of the working class against the reelected Tory government.
The labour movement can and must exercise the demoing in the rank and file. introduction of Cruise, to factory cratic right of resistance to the closures, to cuts in public services, and to attempts to cripple the trade unions and to • shackle or abolish councils.
This conference therefore instructs the NEC: be a good standard-bearer for the Left.
work of those struggles.
1. To launch a mass campaign involving demonstrations, meetings and industrial action in defence of peace, jobs, services, union rights and local democracy.
2. To urge Labour MPs to pursue a policy of obstruction in Parliament; and to urge trade unions to break collaboration with the Tory government by withdrawing from such bodies as the National Economic Development Council.
3. Actively and publicly to support and encourage industrial action in defence of jobs, services and union rights, and direct action against nuclear missiles such as that initiated by the . Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
4. To support trade unionists and Labour councils when they defy Tory laws in order to defend working class rights and interests.
By such a policy we can best thwart the class war plans of this Tory goosen in presene 101 Litt mOSI laoo possible return of a new Labour government.