COMMITTED TO SOCIALIST POLICIES But they have also begun to systematically accuse the Benn campaign Harbouring tremist infiltrators' In particular the International Marxist GrouChallenge, has come which supports Socialist ( under regular attack from Roy Hattersley, Denis Healey and their friends in the right wing When sixteen right wing Islington councillors deserted the for the greener pastures of the SDP they Pid minators. so-called And in cent weeks a number of IMG members' have been broken into and documents SLUICI All this clearly points to a right wing Call Dalzil against the IMG. But the real target of this attack would be the Labour left as a whole and the Benn campaign Dai ticular. This serves to distract • the Labour right wing and their NATO and EEC backers.
Split The establishment BICOS spoke with a different voice last week when it was revealed that Liberal leader David Steel revealed that he had persuaded Roy Jenkins not to join the Liberal Party but to stay in the Labour Party and link up with the Gang of Three. LABOUR's right wing is getting desperate. Healey's prize blunder of accusing Jon Lansman of organising the heckling against him at recent events shows that.
Steel did not want Jenkins to wage an honest fight to win LaDou Partv policies. No, he wanted Jenkins to prepare a much bigger split later on. This open encouragement of infiltration with the explicit aim of splitting Labour Party was welcomed by the media a achievement'.
Shah CA- In March the Guardian exposed the so-called Owen Plan which made clear that the Gang plotted for over while publicly denying their inother Labour right were not fully aware of the infiltrating Gang's intentions yet they remained silent.
Socialist Challenge exposed last year that leading right wing Labour and trade union figures were sponsors of a shadowy NATO® -funded callea ine Labour ana trades Union Committee for satlantic Understanding.
the vice-chairmen was witch-hunter Roy Hattersley.
The policies of right wing are capitalist policies through and through port Common Market and NATO, for wage controls and working class. Their have nothing in common with SUS the 'masterly to split the a year wingers the interests of working people, and should have nothing to do organisation with the party of Labour.
wonder Tran- Bruce-Gardyne, Knutsford could write in the of Sunday Telegraph leading February this year the followWing comment about the Labour right wing's former David Owen! sup- 'Several years ago I enjoyed a memorable Be David test was of sae the David policies univally, between the helpings of caviar What would Harold have done in my predicament?
less disagree about. that Jock came Tory MP for the wrong party.
Despicable 'darling' junket as the Deputy Owen was of the tender Denis the more we chatted people?
All tions method debates about the state of the world the seemed to find to By the time we I'd begun wonder if one of us wasn't in creeps like David Owen are two a bennv or Labour's right wing leading the witch hunt campaigns against the Labour left. They are aided by the establishment press.
leadership conHealey has an +8.(XX a vear retainer trom the Daily Express for writing occathe Daily Express ever said one word in support of working socialist currents whatever their affiliation, have always tried to influence the thinking of the Labour Party.
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We are confident that our supporters' campaigns in the withdrawal from the EEC and NATO, for British troops out of Ireland and for workers' control of in. dustry will find an increasingly broad audience Socialist Challenge readers should be alert to the possibility just against the IMG but against the whole left. They should raise this inside the Labour Party to ensure that a defence will b mounted around the right of all socialists to put their views in Socialist Challenge 24 September 1981 Page 3
the Laurence Scott workers work harder when they've been thrown out of ten ractory!
'Unemployment has been tinued, created 'so that Benn con- workers
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