FOR FOUR months the Campaign group of MPs have been publishing Campaign Group News. This month it produces its first eight page issue. significance and possibilities of Campaign Group News.
Campaign Group News is edited by the Campaign group — its editors being Bob Clay, Joan Maynard and Alan Meale. The Campaign group, together with the NUM, clearly has majority supWhat makes Campaign Group News unique and important already is its genuine openness to campaigns in the party. This is in line with the original statement of the Campaign group of its regarding the seemingly inactive and isolationist role of the PLP in relation to the rest of the Labour and trade union movement.' Members of many different campaigns and organisations have contributed to the initial numbers of Campaign Group Newsy.
Those writing in the first few issues have insecretary Narendra Makenji, and Paul Sharma; leaders Diane Abbott, Mandy Moore, and Ann Pettifor; articles by the chair of the Justice for Mineworkers Campaign, Bill Etherington; Women Against Pit Closures National Committee member Ann Suddick; the secretary of CLPD Vladimir Derer; the Treasurer of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights Peter Purton. Campaign Group News produced a special all women's issue for Campaign Group News extends itself internationally in this latest issue with an interview with Group News has carried uniquely detailed information on the witch hunt. These are in addition to regular articles by Labour MEPs in the European parliament, and Campaign Group News is not a publication like Tribune in which, all too often, you find journalists writing about the struggles of other people. Campaign Group News, particularly through the space it gives to the campaigns in the party, directly reflects what is going on and the words of those Kinnockite left engage in what might be called the 'politics of style without substance.' ample, make gestures, write long articles, glossy advertisements etc about women and black people. But they refuse to actually support the demands that the Women's Action Committee or the Black able to link up with the key struggles, campaigns inside and outside the party their demands. That is why its pages are open to Many people have obviously collaborated to growth will be a tremendous aid to every campaign in the party.
CAROL TURNER looks at the activity of the PLP, of the Guardian and other papers of the