CO-OP CALL TO GET OUT OF NATO from Pat Jordan A an LT NL el
The preliminary agonda for the annual conference of the Co-operative Party has boon issued. Resolution numbor one, from the Rirmingham and District Co-op Party, whilst asking for a future Labour Government to give full support to the UeNey says tit is no longer nocessary to romain a momber of N.oieT.O. and other military groupings. Othor resolutions of interest on the question of forsign policy ares number three, opposing the N.1..T.0. mixod=nan-force, from Parkstone and Bournemouth; number four, a unilateralist one, from Portsea island 5 and numbers soven, oight and nine, all on South Africa. The first two, from Birmingham and District and Manchester and Salford, call for the ending of arms exports to South Africa and a& campaign by the Co-op movement to achieve this ond. Number nine, from Nottingham, demands the cessation of trade between the Co-op movement and South Africa ond the diversion of this trade to countries “applying Co-operstive princi~ lpes.™ The latter point has ilgeria in mind - there originally being a separate resolution calling for trade with \lgeria but the two resolutions were amalgamated in committee.
This is the preliminary agenda and a final agenda will appear in which most of the resolutions will have bsen composited. It is to be hoped that this yoar the movers will resist any attempt to composite! out the two most radical demands, viz., withdrawal from N.i.T.O. and unilateralism. = Rie mmc