behalf of a woman's right to Inside the conference itself a petition signed by over 4IN conference delegates demanded that Ireland he placed on the agenda, and no less than four 110Y held on attended ing by Hemel HempConstituency Labour speakers argued for withdrawal.
Members of Hemel CLP were also to the fore in demanding that Ireland be discussed at the number of times the demand for an Irish debate was taken to the conference floor, finally, to the obvious embarrassment of the National the was discussed for half an hour on Friday morning Michael Foot was wheeled "terrorism' motions critical British policy in Ireland were thanks in part to the block yotes controlled by the trade union bureaucrats.
Nevertheless, that Ireland was forced onto the conference agenda was a victory in itself, reflected the and Foot their just this and Dix and Arthur Scargill, cries of 'reformists ignored Whether existence of Wedgewood Benn. It is issues'. about.
interest in within Labour's rank and file.
On abortion motion attacking the Corrie Bill was finally taken and passed.
Whether the national executive organises for the anti-Corrie demonstration on 28 October remains to be seen.
Perhaps the most heartenmoment the entire conference was on Wednesday, at the doors conference the Rolls Royce and abortion lobbiers chanted in unison: the gates of — kick out Corrie with a three line whip'.
As Ior Ine worst moment, that was provided by Neil Kinnock, a trendy lefty MP who is more trendy than lefty.
During fund-raising speech at the Tribune rally on Wednesday night he began with a joke about 'loose women in North Wales' When his remarks were drowned protest he complained: When I tell jokes about Jews I'm called anti-semitic, when I tell jokes about South Africa I'm barracked for being a racist, but why when I tell jokes about women am I called a sexist?' you ale. Mr Kinnock.
deserts justification they can claim that they are the masters now. With a growing coming together of the Benn/Heffer wing of the parliamentary party and certain left union leaders such as Bernard an alliance 15 being formed which cannot simply be dismissed with For "parliamentarians'.
Although Tony Benn is each of these things As to what else he is, former MP Tom Litterick commented: 'There's a lot of us who think in the same way, but the broad movement comes to Benn. All the reforms we are fighting for do depend, if you like, on the corporate somebody called Anthony something he argues against and so should we... it trivialises the It's true that it is a gross distortion to see what is going on in the Labour Party as a popularity contest between Tony Benn and Jim Callaghan. But Benn is nevertheless now the undisputed and highly popular leader of the Labour left.
One reason he is there is the wretched record of that left over the last few years, which meant that its leadership was not difficult to capture. But from now on Tony Benn needs more than words and dreams to merit that leadership. As he himself said, it is 'action' which politics is all socialist Challenge 11 October 1979 Page 9