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Despite the protests, the young activist won the job by a 15-to-12 vote of the Labor Party national executive committee. Backing him were three mainstays of the party's radical wing: Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, and Labor M.P. Frank Allaun, a pacifist often suspected of pro-Moscow views. Bevan thus became chief Marxist proselytizer among the nation's youth. Says he: "I'm trying to convince young people to fight for real socialist policies where it counts. We have to transform the Labor Party...
...right was battered at the rostrum in three days of bitter and derisive debate. At the outset, Party Chairman Frank Allaun, a left-wing M.P., blamed Callaghan and the Cabinet directly for losing the election. Defeated M.P. Tom Litterick, from Birmingham, angrily hurled a sheaf of papers on the conference floor and shouted, "This is what Jim did with our policies-aye, he fixed all of us! He fixed me in particular." A stream of leftist speakers complained that Callaghan's party had traded socialist doctrine for "watered-down Toryism...
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