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right wing, in tacit conspiracy with the gutter press whose pages they so often use.

It was treated by the press as a triumph for Kinnock. He had hetter not believe i.

Expelling people is not the TRy to 9000283.

Many of the Parliamentary Labook Party were baying in their uncal reactionary fashion 0eg the five speeches = the Editorial Board, espeely Joe socion. Will the NEC To te Dai, Seer' so be sold • Lisaur Pus: premises after d a copie: d mappars from ONE OF the most important tasks before the labour movement is to develop workplace Labour Party branches. This was the theme of the Socialist Organiser meeting at this year's Labour Party conference.

Chair Ann Crowder stressed the importance of bringing politics into the work place and the need of a direct link between the Labour Party and the work place.

Tbe residential тотжету industrial action in which she is involved could not be kept up, she said, without the support it is getting from local Labour Parties. She thought the possibilities of involving women would be greater in workplace branches, but at present Walworth Road has only 38 branches registered.

Victimised UCW militant Alan Fraser told how young people had been brought into his workplace branch who had no previous involvement in politics or even the union.

Bob Clay congratulated Socialist Organiser for pushing workplace branches at Labour Party conference. He thought workplace branches had to be an integral part of the Labour Party and not just an afterthought with no real say in the Labour Party. They are important not just in protecting the Labour Party against Tebbit's attacks on funds but also for political development.

In the North East some shipyard union branches already sent de'egates to GMCs.

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