Thursday, October 18, 2007

Join Diss-Respect by Tomorrow

An old comrade reports: - "The SWP know they are heading for a kicking at the Respect Conference. Here's their national organiser's plea for help":

RESPECT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Respect annual conference is going to be very important this year.We are urging comrades do the following:You can only get delegated to Respect conference if you are a registered member.

You MUST be a paid-up member by THIS FRIDAY, 19 October. Deadline for resolutions is Friday 19 October. Deadline for the election of delegates is Sunday 4 November.

Once again we are urging as many SWP members as possible to get elected to the Respect Conference. If you have any questions please contact John Rees or the SWP National Office. Martin “thug” Smith SWP National Organiser

(and - a letter to Tower Hamlets Respect members from the other side of the coming split:)

To all members of Tower Hamlets Respect

A very well attended branch meeting of Tower Hamlets Respect took place this evening at the Club Row offices.The meeting, unfortunately, was systematically undermined by the behaviour of a minority of members, mainly of the SWP.

The consequence was that we were unable to take a vote on a number of matters including the selection of delegates to conference. There were repeated procedural motions for us to vote, but the minority prevented the chair from putting two sets of proposals for delegates to vote on at the meeting. The chair did manage to get the support of the meeting for a proposal to:

a) give delegated powers to the Tower Hamlets Respect committee to resolve all the outstanding matters from this evening. The outstanding matters being principally, the delegates to national conference and motions to national conference.

b) that the Tower Hamlets Respect committee meeting be held for that purpose on Thursday 18 October at 7.30pm at Club Row.c) there was also a proposal from the floor from Cllr Ahmed Hussain for the Committee to resolve its internal problems and this can also be addressed on Thursday.

Rumours have circulated that a small minority of people, mainly members of the SWP, remained behind after the meeting had closed and the vast majority of people had left. The rumours are that this group purported to be continuing the meeting that had closed and went on to vote through one of the two sets of proposals for delegates to conference in the absence of the majority.

We wish to make it clear that if such a gathering took place it has no constitutional or legal status and that any opinion expressed at that gathering has no authority.There is one Respect in Tower Hamlets. There is one Tower Hamlets membership. There is one committee.That committee is meeting on Thursday, as agreed by the properly constituted branch meeting this evening, to resolve all the matters on the agenda this evening.

Azmol Hussain co-chair Tower Hamlets Respect, Lotif Khan, Farhana Zaman, Awlad MiahAna Miah, Tipu Miah, Ezaz Ali, Beauty Akhtar Lily, Goyas Uddin, Shamsul Sayed Islam, Naser AhmedAbrar Khan, Ansar Mirza, Sebul Ismail Hussain, Abdul Kahar Chowdhury, Cllr. Abjol Miah, Cllr. Mamun Rashid, Cllr. Abdul Munim, Cllr. Dulal Uddin, Cllr. Harun Miah, Cllr. Fozol Miah, George Galloway MP.

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