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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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'On my way to Armageddon' THE CLPD is circulating six model resolutions for the Regional Labour Party conferences on positive discrimination; Manchester Wythenshawe CLP Disaffiliation; Labour Women's Organisation; Pressure Groups; Public Ownership; and Parliamentary Labour Party. Texts are available from 10 Park Drive, London NW11 7SH (tel: 01-458 1501).
The one on Manchester Wythenshawe is:
''This Annual Meeting expresses its deep concern over the suspension of Manchester Wythenshawe CLP by the NEC following an internal dispute. In particular this Annual Meeting regrets:
a] that the CLP was suspended before the CLP officres were given a chance to state their case;
b that the section of the 1983 NEC Report dealing with the matter states only the case against the CLP officers;
c that the NEC enquiry has still not been completed five months after the suspension, thus depriving the CLP of the right to take part in the 1983 Annual Conference and to unswer the one-sided account given in the NEC Report.
This Annual Meeting accepts he right of the NEC to intervene n a CLP where necessary, but 'onsiders it essential for the NEC to only do so with due egard for natural justice, and lot to abuse the powers which it las been granted."
This resolution is particularly mportant after events last veek. The scheduled meeting to reconstitute Manchester Wythenshawe CLP was called off by the Labour Party National Agent and no new date has been fixed. This followed a large number of new trade union deleenging the credentials of a number. The urgent need is for pressure to get the National Agent/NEC to convene the new AGM as soon as possible.
JUDI ANIO Alf Holmes
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Socialist Organiser no. 154, November 10 1983 Page women face new trials THE Greenham women trials which started on during the wire-cutting criminal damage.
Fines ranging from £25 to £70 have received prison sentences. Some women are choosing to go to Holloway.
The magistrates in Newbury are ignoring some women's insistence that they were in possession of wire-cutters. Why? face a new round of court appearances. The 4 November involve all the women arrested action on 29 October. They face charges of been imposed and some have are refusing to pay fines and
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