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"CLPD is open to any member of the Labour Party. Our accounts are available for inspection and the minutes of our meetings are also widely available. We support the right of any group of Labour Party members to organise within the Party with a view to winning majority support for their beliefs.
'We also give notice that the CLPD will take no part in any proposed register of non-affiliated groups which is, in our view, an attempt to introduce a new proscribed list. Instead we call on the Parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party to cease the attack on Party members and to concentrate instead on fighting • the Tories and the SDP. (Motion passed unopposed)
VALERIE WISE (GLC Labour councillor):
'I want to go on record as totally deploring the witch-hunt. I think that their attacking Militant is only the tip of the iceberg - they'll be on to all the rest of the Left in the Party next. That's what the Register is for.
I think the leading members of the Labour Party doing the attacking on the rank and file activists would be better employed using their energies attacking the Tories. I don't accept their argument that they're making the Labour Party a viable alternative to the Tories for the next election.
I'm totally against any sort of registration groups in the Party whether it is Militant, Socialist Organiser, London Labour Briefing, Labour Herald or Tribune. We must have a united campaign of all these groups - the whole rank and file of the Labour Party - to fight this witch
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Socialist Organiser no.90 June 24 1982 Page 15