[, of SOCIALIST ORGANISER A elect the Socialist…]

Scan page 6

, of SOCIALIST ORGANISER A elect the Socialist Organiser Secretariat. *I wish to attend the Socialist Organiser AGM on June 26/27 as a paid-up SO supporter. My local SO card number is ...... I endosef....... to cover arrears in SO contributions (£1.50 per month minimum waged, 20p unwaged), and f... conference fee *Our branch (committee, CLP, etc) wishes to send the following comrades as observers to the Socialist We enclose f..... ....conference (*delete as appropriate. All cher Please send conference literature above. I enclose a stamped addressed Lass ced arximne ichible des un¡OVof the : ot It our has left lise ;htthe red ing her Insen )ns cal rile ric led ble he eft.

Jur ick he be ext nt. )rS ler DIrill to nd le, LC ur cal eer- MEETING " to RATP DAIt: Saturday June 26 an PLACE: Lanchester Polyted TIME: 10am to 5pm Saturdi TO DECIDE: perspectives ai Socialist Organiser Alliance ‹ elert the Innialict Arnanicar:

OPEN TO: all paid-up Social (with the right to vote), and union branches, Labour Part labour movement bodies.

AGENDA: will include work Socialist Organiser activity, a invited speakers from the Ca:

Democracy, the Labour Comr Solidarnosc Trade Union Wo Campaign for Gay Rights, eti AMENDMENTS to resolutio to June 22.

CRECHE: available. Please gi possible.

FACILITIES FOR DISABLE Please give us notice of requil CONFERENCE FEE: £4 way will be a fund to assist comra tances.

WRITE TO: John Bloxam, Si Middle Lane, London N8 891 Name .

Address group is..

Organiser AGM.

Socialist Organiser).

can do.

The Left should resume the offensive. The left must fight tooth and nail against the imminent attempt to expel Militant and Militant supporters. The left should recreate 8 structured broad left unity.

We should campaign to draft Benn to stand against Foot for leader in October. Prospects for immediate victory is not the decisive question it is necessary to rally and organise the serious left, to mark out the ground on which Foot and the right must be opposed:

Reselection has not been made to work at all as it should have been to purge the careerists and create a normal practice that will put Labour MPs, and thus to an extent a Labour Government, under the direct pressure of the rank and file. It must be made to work in that way.

The fight for Labour democracy in the trade unions and for trade union democracy, is tremendously important: we must continue to pursue the fight and to build on the -unfortunately limited -achievement of the SO/LLB id Sunday June 27.

hnic, Priory St, Coventry.

ay, 10 to 4.30 Sunday.

nd structure for the over the next year, and attretarial.

list Organiser supporter observers from trade y branches, and other ishops on aspects of ind workshops with mpaign for Labour Party ns can be submitted up ED PEOPLE: available.

rements.

ged, £1 unwaged. Ther Ides travelling large dis. .....and my SO supporters (names) fees. ques payable to to the address envelope.

with the Labour campaign. If, as is possible, the PLP leaders or the NEC ignore or bowdlerise Party policy in the election the answer of the left must be what the SCLV did in the last election - to run an autonomous left wing campaign within the Labour campaign to express the working class socialist interest in that campaign and prepare to defend those interests whoever wins.

For the SOA itself the next period must also be one of organising the broad spectrum of Labour Party and union support we have built up in the last three years into a more structured and more practical support for the paper and its interventions.

The experience of the last year has shown how irreplacable it is to have a much bigger and better organised revolutionary Marxist segment of the broad Labour left. If a much bigger and better organised SOA had been in existence — or if Militant had been less sectarian and self-absorbed - then the broad Left would be in far better shape today than it actually is. That is one of the central lessons of the entire period since the return of the Tory government in 1979.

----- pull-quotes -----

smittee on freland, the rking Group, the Labour