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"Labour lacked all credibility when its leaders were attacking the manifesto"

You need ten members to start a branch in any workplace.

The definition of 'workplace' is left open in the rules: separate branches can be established in separate sections of a large The Labour Party membership of workplace recruits has to be processed through their ward branches. But the workplace branch can send one delegate to the Labour Party GC in each constituency where it has at least ten members living. Joy Hurcomt candidate in and secretary CND Unfortunately I think the Labour Party has failed to get its policy across over the last four years. For example the lack of support for the People's March. It's crazy to suppose you can just put across a programme without campaigning for it.

Inside the Labour Party we'll be into a period of recrimination. No doubt there'll be a lot of mud slung at the Left. But the start of the decline in our credibility was Callaghan's speech on defence policy which quite deliberately sabotaged the manifesto. The Left will have to keep fighting for clear policies.

People had genuine concerns about disarmament because they hadn't heard the issue presented except one way. When Callaghan made his speech about Polaris we lost all the concern about Cruise.

In the whole campaign there wasn't much socialism. It's really no alternative to propose borrowing and reflationary methods without taking control of the economy, and people realised that. We'll never get our message across unless we get it on a socialist basis.

principles involved in some of the policies. The Labour Party does start off from some socialist concerns, but not a revolutionary concern to change things rather than tinkering around within the system.

Over the next five years, there will have to be a positive fight against Tory policies. We'll have to go out on the streets, as far as I can see. The trade unions will have to make a choice as to factory or office complex.

Be, . Labour Shoreham of Labour think there were socialist Kevin East JOHN HARRIS whether to cooperate - which is their usual policy - or to fight. I think there'll be a lot of public disorder when people see what the Tory policies really are.

And we'll be fighting back very strongly for unilateral nuclear disarmament. We hope the Labour Party will lead demonstrations on this issue.

Flack, agent in Lewisham It went quite badly wrong. We were so sure of victory here.

In terms of future perspectives, people like Ken Livingstone and Michael Meacher seem to have got it right that we must turn to extra-parliamentary work as a priority, particularly to the struggles of the We've got to put a lot more effort and energy into the Labour Party branches working in their localities, with union struggles or with community groups, tenants resisting rent increases, and so on.

Dennis Healey has said that the by elections coming up must be the priority, but I don't think that's going to make any difference. We've got to be working outside the traditional Parliamentary routes, and at the same time building a very strong base of support for the Labour councils that are going to resist the Tories.

It's going to be very tough, but there is a real spirit to fight back. We've picked up 150 to 200 new members in our constituency during the election campaign, and they'll all be eager to do work. '83 Peoples march for jobs TGWU TOPTONY CUTSA by Francis Prideaux WITH PARTY conference only three months away, the deadline for resolutions and nominations (July 15) is less than three weeks off. The rank and file will have to move fast if we are to have any effect.

Model resolutions have been prepared by CLPD on Party unity and the need to end expulsions. One supports the Greenwich amendment, one gives the final decision to the Party conference las opposed to the

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