VISIT ALGERIA
LONDON, ‘Nov, 29 -- The National Executive Committee of the Labour party decided this week to send three of its members, Barbara Castle, M.P., Jennie Lee, M.P. and William Rathbone, president of. the National Union ‘of Railwaymen, as a delegation to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
The decision was taken during a discussion of resolutions submitted to the last annual conference which were not considered then because of lack of time.
Two resolutions were involved, One submitted by the West Lewisham - Constituency Labour party asked the labour movement to organize sending technicians to Algeria on a nongovernmental basis, The other, from the South Nottingham Constituency party, asked for governmental aid to Algeria.
Following the decision by the National Executive Committee, the West Lewisham Constituency decided to write to the members of the delegation, asking them to make a point of discussing the orgmization of direct assistance from the Labour movement with the Algerian government.
Plans of the delegation have not yet been made public. It seems likely that Morocco and Tunisia were included in the projected itinerary to sound out the reaction of the feudal and bourgeois regimes of these countries to a decision to press ahead with assistance to Algeria,
The decision to send a delegation shows that the leadership of the Labour party is not openly hostile to the Algerian Revolution and that pressure from trade unions and local Labour parties could do much to
counteract any opposition which might be displayed by the Tunisian and Moroccan regimes,
MOHAMED BOUDIAF RELEASED