Sussex vote
Socialist Press1981 1981-05-28Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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On April 21 the West Hoathly Labour Party branch (workers at Gatwick airport and Crawley live here) passed a resolution supporting the right of the Irish people as a whole to self-determination and calling for the withdrawal forthwith of all British military forces from Ireland.
However on May 8 the GMC of the l Mid Sussex CLP, whilst agreeing to the first part of the resolution rejected the second, ana on the ground that their call for a united Ireland might be "'misunderstood" it was decided not to send the amended resolution to the local press but only to the NEC.
Last year 40 new members were enrolled in West Hoathly-there had been only 7 and 270 in the whole constituency: One of them, a member of ASTMS who became chairperson of the branch at the AGM in February this year, had been expelled from the party in the 1950s for his principled socialist stand when active in the Young Socialists in London.