The Kashmir workshop for example was extremely positive.
Forty people crammed into too small a room to hear a speaker from forward4kashmir explain why the war in one of the most militarised part of the world is almost never heard of here-and that even the left ignores it most of the time.
As well as supporting the subsequent resolution on conference agenda, the session was extremely informative and comradely one in which people actually made contributions which responded to what had been said rather than a series of pre-prepared speeches in parallel to each other.
The Kurdistan workshop was very different but again very heartening in that the three platform speakers from the region all had different political approaches and therefore led to a genuine debate on the way forward -while maintaining the minimum basis for solidarity that conference would later adopt by passing the motion on the issue.
The workshop on Palestine not surprisingly focused on the disagreements that exist between moving motions and amendments on the question later on.
In particular the section in the Waltham Forest motion which supports the establishment in the whole of Palestine a unitary, democratic and secular state.
Only this would allow for the recognition and implementation of the Palestinian right to return to any part of Palestine and for the abolition of all discriminatory Zionist legislation.
Others who supported the Greenwich amendment wanted the deletion of this clause, apparently because the Palestinians themselves are not demanding a unitary democratic state and we should not impose our demands on them.
Yet, those in favour of the amendment pointed out that Mustapha Barghouti, prominent Palestinian leader had declared "the two states solution dead".
The argument also conflated the role of a solidarity organisation like the Palestine Solidarity Committee and a political party in embryo like Respect.