 The boost to Party membership and activity at this time was considerable.Influenced by the prevailing political climate, some members who joined in this period wanted to change the emphasis of the Party’s propaganda efforts towards taking a more positive attitude to industrial struggles, Claimants Unions and Tenants Associations, but also to women's liberation and squatting, arguing that the Party had developed a somewhat idealist conception of how socialist consciousness arises, being divorced from the day-to-day struggles of workers.To this effect fifteen activists from the 60s generation signed a mini-manifesto entitled “Where We Stand” in 1973 and circulated it inside the Party.