ACRES of newsprint have been devoted Party by Underhill. Underhill has sent his weighty cole party's former documents to every constituency party at euphemistically described as 'his owe interested party is giving him a lot of back either Lord Underbill has a lot of why all the fuss? After all, the Mititant tead hardly something new.
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origina. Nationa decision not to publish documents was made in 19?: opportunity, which was open in thall. t0 i this decision cithat subsequently. abrioush, On the contrary, the amaiting victims of this alack Re Selection Left at the 1979 Labou manifesto should be ratifed ty ix should be mandatory of teta of P rather than the kader of the these victories. They are preparing a lose sir defeat the left-wing challenge which they see be up an offensive against initial target. "exposure' of the Militant tendency in the L The newspaper Militant has been published in the Labour Party since 1964. Its supporters have the Labour Party You Socialists since at least 1968. Every member of d Labour NEC has known about the Militant to danc Executive Come Loderhat's collecti at ibe 15 Conde these Tertiation. nothing to do with the sudden discomery by Labour right that there is a party within a party the whole affair is part of a carefully orchestrated campaign by the righr-wine led by Bill Rogers and Reg Prentice's understudy, Neville Sandelson, against the whole of the Labon left. Unless the Labour left, including Tony Benn the keaders of the Labour Coordinating Commitice, understand and respond to it, then they will becom The offensive of the Labor ritu las 1o be ser mainst the background of in vicacies son by d des the Labour's right wing is determined to ol up in the wake of the disastrous expericace of th autumn's Labour conference to avertur these let Labour government. Their first target is to ges tendency are just the most obvious and convenic The Militant tendency is portrayed by the press as slander both against thee At the debate Coordinating Committer with the far left last week, Tony Saunois, a Milita representative on national executive, deliberately placed himself on the side of the Labour left against the revolutionary left.
But Militant's political accommodation to k-fi social democracy is tempered by an organisationa 'ritualistic references Marxist theory. Because of the Militant's obnoxions the Labour left may be reluctant 80 defend them. But this would be a disastrous mistake rather than acting defensively, the Labour left shook go onto the offensive and raise the demand for th right of affiliation of all working class and socials Militant is bein spearheaed by people in the Labour Party who hav no interest whatever in socialism or the working about Clause 2 of Labour's constitution which forbids secret organisation insade the party; but, of course, those who hold clause 2 as sacrosanct have complete contempt for other parts of Labour's constitution, in particular clause 4, with it nationalisation of the means of which they regard as a joke The attack on the Militant is a political attack, and has nothing to do with constitutional niceties.
the Labour defend themselves is to denounce the political basis of this attack and expose the demagogy and anti-morkie 27. March 1980 Fae5