THE DECISIONS taken in Chesterfield to set up a Campaign Forum bringing together the Campaign Group of Labour MPs, the broad left in the unions, the hundred or so Campaign Groups now being formed in the constituencies, and the organisations in Labour Left Liaison represents a In particular the fact that the women's demands and the campaign for Black Sections have been officially and explicitly endorsed will open up the Labour Party to those who have been In addition the decision to endorse every year the candidates for the women's section of the NEC chosen by the shadow elections at the women's conference puts the Campaign Group firmly alongside the women's movement, making it central to what we are together trying to We also agreed on two other important changes. First to abandon the negotiated left slate and go for clearer political nominations for the NEC next year. And also to invite all Prospective Parliamentary Candidates who are in sympathy with our aims and objectives to make contact with us, in place of the old system, which was by invitation only.
These decisions, taken together, offer the Labour Party as a whole a broad non-sectarian alliance for socialism that can stretch out to the millions of people who we seek to represent but who have felt excluded by the structure of the party, and some of the statements made on We need a strong socialist Labour Party to win the election and strong socialist policies to carry that to success. And above all we need to make the Labour Party inadequately represented in the past.
do. its behalf. major development for the Labour Party as a whole. and democratic in its own structure and purpose. truly representative
Socialist Action 26 Sep 1986