This was an outright lie. Certai members of the IMG supported banner and the right of those wished to carry it, but the wome contingent was by no means exclusiv made up of members or sympathisers the IMG. But for Deason this irrelevant, because his purpose was win the vote at the mass meeting agai the carrying of the banner.
This meeting itself had an imp ance, because at the preceding 'coun there had been a decision that such ite weren't up for discussion at meetings. The issue of the separ contingents was the one occasion w this prohibition was successfully fou And although the mass meeting vo against the contingents' rights, the that the matter was discussed at all albeit for only 15 minutes - wa victory for proletarian democracy But the decision itself was not, ause workers' democracy is not sim about majority rulings, it is about defence of the rights of such minori ise, make their own propaganda, an