As well as the resolution on publications (see facing page), the ISG is submitting two other constitutional amendments in its own name as well as supporting the outline constitution submitted by the SWP and others. The first. which we understand is generally supported by the SWP is as follows: is to build a broad-based comprehensive political alternaty to new Labour. We seck to do this by building the SA as a campaigning local level, supporting workers in struggle, initiating and supporting propressne campo gis, workil the unions to strengthen the left and build for a fight-back, and by fighting on a socialist platform in elections. We want to build local Aliances which are rooted in local campaigns and the local labour movement. Our manifesto, People Before Profit, adopted for the 2001 general election, constitutes form of the Alliance." We have submitted this because we think that the current formulations in the draft constitution we political purpose of the Alliance and we wanted to give a clearer nicture of what its day to day func tioning should be. We also think that the adoption or tre mantesto, reopie belore Profit was a major step forward for the Alliance. This is by tar the most comprehensive statement of policies we have made so far and is a mery wsal docencnt mdl ciny setting out our attitude on a whole rance of particular quesuons out in outlining our general approach. This document needs to be proiected as the culminaton of our policy discussions to date. In addition we are also putting Torward an amendment, which appears in the first conference bulletin on the right of the specially As we argued in Socialist Outlook 48, the Socialist Alliance needs to build on the gains of moverents such as the black moverent and We have not so far been successful in winning suficient numbers of activists from these movements from our ranks Strong support for the demands of these movements is obviously a precondition for achieving this, but without aiso ensunng that the oppressed are given an adequate voice it is unlikely to be sufficient. any socialist organisation are required to combat the inequalides of capitalist society - a society in which we not only live today but ness too.
It is unfortunate that this queston nas so tar been probaoy the least debated issue facing the we nope that ouers wal gat serious thought to what we are outtine torward as we think that to build a serious political alternative to new Labour these issues also
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