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Please send me.... months' sub, I enclose £ To: Soclalist Organiser, 28, Middle Lane, Lon 250 ballot forms were issued against delegates' cards. The highest counted vote in conference was never more than 239.

Democratic Left won three of the officers positions. Socialist Students in NOLS won vice-chair and publicity officer and Militant won NUS officer.

Balance

In other words, the independents who, as it turned out, held the balance, wouldn't vote for Militant all the time but chose who they thought were the best candidates, regardless of which slate they were on.

After that round of elections a delegate from Militant stood up waving a ballot form. He said that as he'd been given two then the discrepancy between votes counted in conference and ballot forms issued (11) could be explained by the Democratic Left giving their supporters more forms than they were entitled to.

Through most of the conference Militant delegates had behaved appallingly, jeering the Democratic Left and generally rabble-rousing. At this allegation of ballot-rigging they took to their feet and the chair closed the session because it was unJoin the Labour Party Write to: The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London SE17 1JT.

Subscription is £7 per year, £2 unwaged, 50p OAPs. the next round of elections or that's it. And he demanded a decision by 10.00*a.m. He said that Jim Mortimer, the General Secretary of the party had told him to do that. He demanded a roll-call vote (where names are read out and delegates say 'for' or 'against') on his procedure. He said that there would be an NEC inquiry into the whole of conference conduct.

Socialist Students in NOLS supporters proposed an amendment that we take a rollcall to check the number of delegates present against identification and demand some evidence that people who had left were present the day before. This would show if there had in fact been 250 delegates there to cast the 250 votes.

Militant seemed to be against a roll-call and wanted a debate about the evidence.

Outrageous

From then on things deteriorated. A Militant supporter wanted and pushed for the right to make a point of order. The chair repeatedly told him to shut up and then, outrageously, expelled him from the conference floor.

Although the chair does have that right, it was simply an act of provocation.

Militant demanded a rollcall against the chair's ruling. Then John Dennis stepped in and closed the conference.

Socialist Students in NOLS supporters stayed behind with Militant supporters to discuss what to do next. But before we went along with them we again demanded to see the evidence. We saw the ballot form but it was not valid. It did not bear the necessary number or official signature. Had it been cast it would have been a spoilt paper FOR people in the LPYS Easter weekend means one thing - Annual Conference.

Supporters of the paper Class Fighter, (which sponsors SO) will be there.

We will be arguing for the YS to take a vigorous campaigning stance on issues like the Youth Training Scheme and nuclear disarmament.

Class Fighter will be backing an emergency resolution from Peckham YS on the subject of nuclear disarmament. The resolution calls on ON February 27 a special general meeting of Yardley CLP excluded four people from membership. Two of them were existing Labour Party members transferring, two were new applicants. They have since appealed to the NEC against their exclusion Meanwhile, the two transfers have been told that they are not now members of the Party: they have been expelled by the back-door.

This exclusion of Labour Party members when they try to transfer sets a disturbing precedent for excluding unwanted people, or delaying their acceptance. This case has been dragging on for nearly a year now. It is a good illustration of the localised witch-hunts that are still going on behind the facade of unity under the "dream ticket"

the LPYS to build the national CND demonstration against Reagan on June 9.

On YTS, Class Fighter will be pushing the issue of compulsion (the Tories plan to force youth onto the schemes). We have already had some success on this front getting the Yorkshire Region of the LPYS to back the campaign against compulsion.

Class Fighter will also be supporting the resolutions that call for a YS young women's conference. The reason is we feel that the Y$ needs to be made far more habitable for women and also far more serious about fighting women's oppression. So a young women's conference is seen as the first step on the way to doing that.

Over the last few years the issue of lesbian and gay oppression has gained more prominence in the YS partly through the activitiy of Class Fighter supporters but mainly through the efforts of Lesbian and Gay YS, who have taken up the issue in a bold and imaginative way.

This year there should be a debate on the question and Class Fighter will be arguing for the YS to do far more about it.

In the other debates -which will cover a whole series of issues from Ireland to the alternative economic strategy - Class Fighter will be putting forward our own distinctive revolutionary socialist ideas. That is an important task, given the dominance within the LPYS of supporters of the Militant newspaper and their rather muddled, confused and sectarian ideas. Labour Party Get SUrIALISI an And door by post!

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