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place Branches as a vehicle for:

a) Recruitment of new members.

b) Campaigning for Labour Party policy, in line with the constitutional provision established at the 1981 Conference.

-We farther urge the NEC to authorise a conference of éxisting workplace branches to establish a national network to coordinate the articulation of party policy and to exchange experiences to improve the effectiveness of workplace branches in their objects. _The initial move to develop coordination between workplace branches was taken at the Socialist Organiser Labour Party Conference fringe meeting. It was from there that Geoff Dixon offered to coordinate further activity. The Labour Party Workplace Branches National Newsletter No. 1' , circulated with the details of the January 28 meeting, reports what has happened.

thoro hae hoan an arpollant response to the idea of a NationL) That it is quite easy to recruit new members to the party. The usual experience is that membership is doubled when organised recruiting is undertaken.

2) On the negative side most people find that processing applications takes far too long before a new member receives his/her card from the local residential branch.

The Tebbit/King proposals to cut the financial links between trade unions and the Labour Party make it vital that a political campaign to involve more workers in the Labour Party is started now!"

Just before the 1983 Labour Party Conference, and a year after getting the final constitutional go-ahead, Walworth Road reported that a mere 38 workplace branches had got through the bureaucratic maze and officially registered, and "2 or 3 are being processed. " The real figure was certainly more than 38 then. In fact the indications are that the number had started attracted 50 people.

The significance of the meeting on January 28 is that it is the first attempt to organise on a national basis. As many workplace branch activists • as possible should arrange to go to yei HUNGARY'S 200,000 strong German minority are having some of their rights restored after 40 years of oppression.

German-Hungarians are again being allowed to give their children German names. They can marry in a ceremony conducted in the German language. Signs in German are now to be seen in the streets of Hungarian cities and towns.

Forty years after the war. Hungary, which was a German ally, is the first of the East European Stalinist states to restore full rights to a German ethnic group! was ruled inadmissible evidence.

And finally, that the Provisional IRA had issued an unprecedented statement that they were responsible for the Sallins train robbery in 1976, and that the three accused were inno Everywhere else - in Czechoslovakia, in Poland, in the USSR German groups which have lived in those areas for centuries still suffer discrimination.

After world war 2, thirteen million Germans were uprooted and driven west, out of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and what is now western Poland but was then eastern Prussia. It was an orgy of revenge, savage racist nationalism and power politics.

The largest group, ten million, was expelled from castern Prussia. allocated to Poland by Stalin in compensation for the pre-war eastern Polish territories annexed by the USSR in 1939.

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