Labour Party Socialists Annual General Meeting (Socialist Outlook, December) is particularly ill informed and mischievous.
Whie the AGM was small, it should on the same day as a major conference support of the miners, probabily reducing LPS does not just draw together a section of the Labour ieft 'for united acWhile work around conference is an important part of what LPS doos, it has been primarily about campaigning, ex plicity warting to link up struggles with te tight againsi the right in the party.
LPS was responsible for launching Labour Against the War and Labour Against the Witch-hunt, nether of which was/is simply about activity at conference. In this respect LPS is very di ferent from much of the Labour left tion that the development of the Socialst On the contrary, it the Network is a success it will represent what LPS set out to achieve and wil be weicomed by most LPS activists, many of whom have been at the forelront of getting the Network underway Most of the points put forward by Outlock supporters at the AGM on the relationship between LPS and the Notwork and how the Notwork should te Crly the (important; one that e the Network develops inio a scrious democratic, campaigning force the need for LPS will caso was defoatoc!
development has taken place outside LPS aco complex, but can be largeiy atributed the Socialist Movemeni, of which LPS is part, and thu way it and sucialist have alienated many who are committed to building the loff in the Labour Party with links to activists in the unions ano campaigns.
In his endeavour to present LPS as merely a battleground for various ten. dencies, Brooks seems unaware of the fact that Labour Briefing effectively The Nissan Flexibility at seen as endangering the plant.
"This events were not by chance; Japanese companies work on the basis of joint control of component companies, extending their con-