At its Jastor Confcrcneo, the British C.P. had a wide discussion on tany politicnl questions. The Confcreneo wos marked by tho elicergence of n left opposition on several questions. We give an extrnet from the Daily Workor reporting the intcrnnticnnl discussion: "eceein private session only four out of the 480 vsting delcgntcs opposed the cxecutive's resolution; there were ten bstentiong.... four brench motions opposing the cxcautive rcecived a merce handful af votes. One fron North Lewisham, calicd for the continunnec of the public dcbate betwoen the portics. It got only five votes, with five abstentions.....From Bell Green (Coventry) breneh two further motions wore overwhelmingly rejected. ‘The first instructcd the Dxocutive to publish more fnetunl information about other partica, implying that insufficicnt informetion cbout thom was available. It reecived 14 votes, with four cbstcntions. Tho scoond on Yugoslovin, rcecived 12 yotes with cight cbstentions."
Though the Daily Worker trias to play it dom, the fact that 14 branches voted against the leadership is of itmionse iuportance. Thera ia olweya 3 oompaign against clecting diSsidonts as delogatcs to National Conferoneo, in which all the resources of the full-=-tine apparntus ore used. We know of at lcast onc branch where the majority of the activo nonbers ore dissident. but o loyalist) was elected dolegate cwing to the campaign weecd by the C.F. apparatus. The next issuc of the Bullctin will contain .n extensive roview of anondticnts,ctee submitted by branchos.