"Conference notes that the Government's proposed Identity Cards and National Identity Register will cost billions and will line the pockets of the companies contracted to create the computer systems.

If this huge computer project does not fail, the National Identity Register will constitute a licence to exist for a British citizen, if existing includes such activities as travelling with a passport, driving a car, having a bank account or accessing Council facilities.

This licence to exist could be suspended or revoked at any time, leaving individuals unable even to withdraw money from a bank account.

Conference resolves that any individuals who refuse to register should be supported, and that all Respect's elected councillors and future candidates should publicly oppose any attempt to deny access to council facilities to their constituents on the grounds of refusal to register.

Further, Respect's elected Councillors and future candidates should publicly oppose any Council expenditure on the implementation of systems for dealing with the Identity Cards and the National Identity Register."

"Conference Notes

1. Under New Labour there has been a wholesale assault on civil liberties under the guise of tackling anti-social behaviour
2. Anti-social behaviour legislation has been used in particular to target young people, both individually and collectively
3. In addition to individual ASBOs local councils are increasingly enacting Dispersal Orders which are expressly aimed at preventing groups of young people from meeting in certain areas
4. In effect, Dispersal Orders criminalise public assembly for young people. Any group of two or more people who refuse to leave - or return after being asked to leave - an area covered by a dispersal order are subject to 3 months in prison and/or a fine of £2,500

"Conference notes:

1. The deteriorating situation in Iraq as a result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by US and British troops, which has brought the country to the verge of civil war.
2. The violence between Sunni, Shia and Kurdish groups in Iraq is not an unintended consequence of invasion but has been fostered, including by the creation of death squads, as a deliberate strategy to defeat the legitimate resistance by Iraqis to the occupation of their country.
3. The growing numbers of deaths of British soldiers in Afghanistan, particularly in Helmand province.
4. US attempts to engineer an excuse for an attack on Iran, either through a direct confrontation or through an attack on Syria.
5. The continuing Israeli blockade of Gaza and attacks on its people, as well as the removal of aid to the area following the democratic election of Hamas to the Palestinian Authority.
6. The destruction wreaked on Lebanon by the Israeli army and the deaths of over 1,000 Lebanese civilians.
7. The continuing use of the 'war on terror' as justification for attacks on civil liberties and scapegoating of the Muslim community by government and police, as demonstrated by the shooting in Forest Gate of an unarmed man by anti-terrorist officers and renewal of proposals for 90-day detention following the August terror alert.
8. Mass opposition in Britain to the occupation of Iraq, an attack on Iran or Syria and Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and Lebanon.

"Conference notes:

1. Trade unionists are facing the dismantling and privatisation of public services, unprecedented attacks on pensions and a crisis of political representation within the unions themselves.
2. New Labour's failure to repeal Tory anti-union labour laws allows mass sackings by unscrupulous employers like Gate Gourmet and General Motors and widespread attacks on pay and conditions.
3. The disaffiliation of the FBU from the Labour party and the affiliation of the RMT to the Scottish Socialist Party have begun a debate about the political representation of working people; a debate to which the successes of Respect and the SSP have contributed.
4. The need for Respect to continue to build a mass party at the core of the working class through engagement with the trade union movement and workers' struggle.
5. The campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill, supported by a number of MPs, aiming to strengthen the position of trade unions and to improve union rights.
6. The Organising for Fighting Trade Unions conference on 11th November 2006 in Shoreditch Town Hall will provide an important opportunity for trades unionists to discuss responses to the challenges facing the movement.