Vietnam — a Big Step Forward

(Thuitsday). _ Several years' campaigning has now been successful, By a very small margin the Labour Party Cy nee.has followed the 1T.U.C. in call upon the Government ¢o aiesooid fs Phe eae ea orb ie cara ee very fine, as far as it goes, \‘Now the left must force a change of policy and advance a more definate policy of support for the: Vietnamese people in their struggle, Now that Conference has taken this line, every Labour Party in the country is quite free, in fact duty-bound, to join campaigns to force the Government to stop supporting American aggression in Vietnam, Wherever possible, local Labour Parties should affiliate to local organisations campaigning on these lines, C.L.P,'s must support demonstrations designed to bring about a change in Government policy, A fine start would be for there to be a mass of Labour Party banners on the October 22nd demon— stration in Trafalgar Square (called in solidarity with the American anti- Vietnam war movement), But there is even more to the question than that, Labour Party members must insist that the Government carries out Conference policy, The resolution on Vietnam cannot be cast into the dustbin; it represents the conscience of the Labour Party shocked by this Government's spineless support for Johnson's genocidal war, Everyone should support the various campaigns which have been started to fight for democracy in the party, The Sheffield Trades and Labour Council will welcome support for its Campaign for a Democratic Party, whilst Tribune and others who launched the Decisions Matter project will, no doubt, consider this to be one of the decisions that do matter,