Abstract
The witness seminar was held in January 1990 at the Institute of Historical Research and examined the Campaign for Democratic Socialism, CDS, a pressure group which operated in the Labour Party in the early 1960s. Professor David Marquand was in the Chair and Brian Brivati made the opening remarks. The following individuals attended; their positions at the time are in brackets after their name. Lord Donoughue (CDS Organiser); Professor Stephen Haseler (author of The Gaitskellites,1 and co‐organiser of CDS Youth Section); Lord Jay (leading Gaitskellite MP); Professor George Jones (co‐organiser of CDS Youth Section); Brian Magee (Signatory to the Manifesto); Lord Mayhew (Organiser of Socialist Campaign for Multilateral Disarmament); Rt. Hon. Bill Rodgers (Chief organiser of CDS); Dr Patrick Seyd (author of ‘Factionalism in the Labour Party: The Case of CDS‘2) and Dick Taverne (Treasurer of CDS).

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