passed the following resolution opposing the witch-hunt being launched against the 'Militant' tendency. Socialist Action urges all Labour Party members to back such a resolution & pass similar ones through the local branches.
Tottenham CLP, noting the present orchestrated campaign by the media, Tories and some right-wing sections of the Labour Party to start a witch-hunt against the Militant tendency, * strongly condemns this campaign as an attempt, by enemies of the labour movement, to cause disruption in the party and begin a counter-attack against the democratic gains of the Brighton conference;
* affirms our opposition to any bans or proscriptions, and our support for the right of political renaencies to argue for ineur ideas in the Labour Party, which is the broad party of the British labour movement;
* congratulates the NEC for its decision not to give way to this campaign and reopen the 'Underhill Report' case, & urges it to issue a clear statement on the lines of the points above. just how isolated they are becoming.
DENUNCIATION It is in response to this situation that Sanderson & his allies- backed up by the capitalist press - have embarked on their shrill denunciations of so-called marxist infiltration'. The aim of these 'denunciations' is to intimidate the broad left and warn them that - whatever differences they have with Callaghan - they have more in common with him than marxist "authoritarians'.
Naturally enough, such denunciations have been launched under the fig-leaf of preserving "democracy. But what type of democracy is Sanderson and his media backers trying to preserve? The democratic right for a few MPs - conniving with unelected civil servants and bankers - to overturn Labour conference decisions and launch vicious attacks on working people who voted them to office?
The democratic right of these same MPs to censure and expel all those in the party who don't agree with them and who aren't prepared to sit quietly while they ram their anti-working class policies home? Is this the type of 'democracy' the right-wing are trying to defend?
ALTERNATIVE Unfortunately, for Sanderson & his friends, however, his scare