the Socialist Alliance for the election will be a national Birmingham which will decide on the election manifesto for the Alliance as well as the key pledges that will be run on every cartdates leaflet.
Hopefully the manifesto wil then be pubished as an accesible pamphlet which coull be an important tool in the campaigne This will be another stag. ing post in the establishment of the Alliance as a national force. Local activists will get the chance to meet campaigners from other areas, to see how many candidates wo flav in place for the most sustained challenge the left war period.
The process of discussing months ago. Sixteen submissions have been made by local Alliances and polit- reach out.
cal groups which support A document was drawn up which brings together all the proposals which are call mon to all or most of these which will form the working which amendments can Consensus Politically this document is on the right lines - demonstrating that there is a great needed. deal of consensus about the policies we need to There are some omissions including the strange lack of any need to secularise the British state - an issue which should receive more we see an increasing number of religious schools getting taxpayers' money as part of the plan to privatise Some more controversial amendments will undoubt.
edly come forward which attempt to move the Alliance in the wrong direc tion. While revolutionary social. remain essential to the success of the project, the Alliance is not a revolutionary organisation. We would not have won the breadth of support we are already getting on the basis of a revo. political basis for that does not exist today. So it wil be important for the conference not only to vote against amendments from groups who confuse their own political ideas with what can be commor ground in this alliance, but to try to convince those who the wrong approach.
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Mark Steci, Dare Nellist and Theresa Bennett launching the Socialist Albance national campaig»