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Labour Party Conference meetings of Labour CND, calls for the biggest possible turnout against the Bomb on October 2 - and a clear reaffirmation of Labour Party policy LABOUR CND urgently needs people to come and support our demonstration at the Labour Party conference on Sunday October 2.

We are carrying on the struggle to keep the Labour Party to the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Labour CND will continue to press for the full programme both in the Labour Party and in CND. We will not tolerate the sort of ambiguities that lost us the last election.

The object of the demonstration is to demand that the Labour Party stands firm on its commitment to scrap all nuclear weapons. We aim to draw attention to the importance of massive support for the unilateral resolutions at the conference.

This conference will be a crucial test for many of our socialist gains in the party. The party's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament has been one of the few victories for socialists. It challenges all the basic assumptions of s the capitalist state and presents a clear alternative to Thatcher's war games.

Trident

Yet despite the overwhelming support for scrapping nuclear weapons in the party, the right wing control of the election campaign resulted in a pathetically inadequate presentation of the issue of nuclear disarmament to the voters.

Labour Party policy was, essentially, not put to the voters..

Clear Labour opposition to Cruise and Trident, Polaris and the US bases was thrown away KERS AI RALY TENDE and never presented to the people. The right wing wrecked and sabotaged the support for disarmament built up by the peace movement and the grassroots - and then blamed the policies for our election defeat.

They will be looking for, ways to retreat from party policy at this conference. We must not allow this to happen.

We need leaders who believe in the party's policies. We were sold out at the last election.

It is only weeks before Cruise missiles are due to be deployed in this country and in Europe. The international tension is used by Reagan and Thatcher to justify the cold war posturing and the nuclear arms escalation. The reality is that the nuclear arms race, in particular the decision to deploy Cruise missiles, is the main cause of the present threat of war.

Fudging

• We are calling on the Labour Party to mount a vigorous campaign, starting now, against nuclear weapons. We are calling for no retreat from party policy and no fudging on Polaris or the US and British nuclear weapons and bases.

We demand that a clear mandate is given for a vigorous campaign, to start now, so that the people will have the chance to hear the arguments for unilateral. nuclear disarmament. When the arguments are clearly presented, they will win votes.

People will not join us if our policies are confused and weak. Both CND and the Labour Party need to learn that lesson.

Please come to Brighton to the Labour CND demonstration. Support the disarmament resolution.

This has to be the biggest demonstration that the Labour Party has ever seen. It can only be successful if every Labour Party sends its banner and organises coaches and cars to -bring their members to _ Brighton.

Time is short, but there is still time, if comrades start to organise now. At the Newham Eight demonstration - Stokely Carmichael (left) and one RACIST attacks are part of everyday life in •Newham, East London. White thugs attack Asian people when they can get away with it: when the victims are young school students, old people or the Asians are outnumbered.

In September 1982 the thugs went on the rampage. In one week there were three attacks on school students from the Little Ilford School. More attacks were expected.

The incident that followed is sub judice, but now, after the police have changed the charges, eight Asian youths, who defended themselves, face possible life imprisonment for 'conspiracy.

The Newham 8 Defence Campaign organised a demonstration and rally last Saturday; 24th. By going through two busy shopping centres which the police tried to prevent, another 500 people saw the demonstration and joined in. The official slogans of the march were 'Self Defence is No Offence' and "The only conspiracy - police conspiracy, both of which were too much for the LPYS contingent, which was probably the largest.

At the very noisy and enthusiastic rally representatives Party C LABOUR VICTORY of Leadership n Loach's series of films for Channel 4, now blocked vers that be.

With: KEN LOACH, REG RACE (SLV Chair) and other participants in the films.

HOPE TO SCREEN EXCERPTS OF THE FILMS 5.30pm. Monday October 3 The Preston Room Royal Albion Hotel CLACK DEMUNCE D DAPE NCE of the defendants (right)

from a host of black defence campaigns spoke. The theme was quite clear. Black people will defend themselves against racist attacks from fascists and the police.

Stokeley Carmichael told the meeting "You must be as determined as the Palestinians against Zionism and you must be better organised than the police."

Dave Nellist MP was very nearly howled down as his contribution centred on the Tories dividing the working class. The audience wanted to know why Labour governments had introduced racist immigration laws. Nellist said he'd come onto that in a minute. He didn't.

The black youth were not willing to put up with a lecture about unemployment, even though, as Nellist argued, the fascists recruit from unemployed youth.

• Tony Banks was much better received as he said that black communities have the right to defend themselves against racist attacks.

The trial of the eight begins on October 24 at Snaresbrook County Court. Snaresbrook is a predominantly white, Tory area. People are needed to join the picket line outside the Speakers: ERIC HEFFER, AUDREY WISE, STONE, REG RACE, JEREMY CORBYN Chair: ERNIE ROBERTS 6.30pm, Saturday October 1 At Apollo Hotel, 135 Kings Road, Brighton

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