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AT its September meeting the Class Fighter steering We fully back this, but it means getting very wide committee took a decision not to register. We think it support among the CLPs. The conference will be on is a weapon of purge and witch-hunt. We will fight 30 October and all YS branches should get their CLPs every inch of the way, all the way and in every way to send delegates and send a delegate themselves. necessary to resist the expulsion of socialists from the There is also the question of a witch-hunt of the YS. Some sections of the right wing are saying that The register is the right wing's weapon to launch the YS should be disbanded. We need to be prepared their witch-hunt. It will be used to expel Party mem- for this kind of attack. The right wing now have a bers, to divide and intimidate the left. majority on the National Executive and could, Class Fiahter is never aoina to accept the riaht technically, get it through. The best way to be prewing trying to expel any socialists from the Party. pared is by building up strong working class based But we also know that we cannot fight this attack YS branches and show them who is really building alone. There are steps being taken by sections of the left to organise themselves and we are fully behind them. A conference has been called by Hackney North and Stoke Newington Labour Party to organise CLPs against the witch-hunt. They are saying that CLPs should declare that they will not, under any circumstances, expel their members. And they are going to resist any attempts to disband them.

Labour Party conference supported a ban on the use of plastic bullets Labour Party. the Labour Party.

Whilst totally defending hunt, we must make it cle cutting their own throats b ing to register now. Of cour tront of the attack, but the it is by a genuine united fro Militant against the witchear to them that they are y going it alone and applyrse Militant are in the fore: only way they will deteat int of the left groups.

Started with a bit of ritual stuff about backing the nurses (though they would keep calling the little darlings 'health workers'). Thank god the Tories are in at the moment. if we we'd have to wade through them outside too.

Just before we were getting round to the business of booting out the lefties, some cheeky Militant chap got up. He complained about how much ex-ministers got for their memoirs and why didn't they give a bit to tne rary! roor naroia looked very embarassed, disgraceful stuff, where have the gentlemen gone today?

But still, we got the register through, and all went back to the Imperial for drinks.

DAY 3 EVEN better. We've cleaned up the National Executive. It seems a little too good to be true, though - someone's given us a bit more than we paid for.

The 'debates' today are boring, though, all that To make up for a dull day we all toddle off to the 'Labour Gay Rights' meeting in the evening. Dreadful scenes - the chaps from the Mail, Sun, and Express are witch-hunted out of the meeting to cries of 'now you know what it's like to be discriminated against".

I stay, and bear the most frightful accounts of homosexual behaviour -being beaten up in pubs, 'harassed' at work, not the sort of thing any decent audience want to hear. The Classfighters get in on the act again, asking some 'gay youth movement' to join up with them infiltrating the Party -disgraceful!

DAY 4 THOUGH we've won things seem to be going badly, someone spilt the beans. Scargill got up to moan on that Sidney switched the points on his railwaymen and voted the wrong way. Thank god they didn't get another crack at voting - but it looks like the fuss will keep on. Sidney may have to do something very clever to get out of it.

The rest of the day goes OK. The women who've been noisy all week get kicked into touch by the unions - they wanted

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stuff about fighting 'anti- union' laws and the like.