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Such attacks hunt socialists out of the party.
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Socialist Challenge 10 December 1981 page 2 THE decision of the party leadership against Peter Tatchell is part of an attempt to witch-hunt the left out of the party. The Labour leaders have declared war on ail those who are attempting to carry out conference decisions and who are fighting for policies which can oppose this Tory government. Supporters of Militant, Socialist Orgnaiser and Socialist Challenge have all should be flooded with resolutions condemning the actions should be vigorously opposed. The NEC taken in respect of Peter Tatchell and any attempt to witchWe print a model emergency resolution for our supporters to put through their wards. GMCs, trade unions to be sent to This branch/committee utterly condemns the action of the party leadership in refusing to endorse the candidature of Peter Tatchell in Bermondsey. The decision denies the right of CLPs to select their own candidates and hence makes a complete mockery of the decision of party conference to reselect MPs. The decision further lays the basis of a witch-hunt in the party against all those members who are atThis branch/committe calls on the NEC to endorse the candidature of Peter Tatchell and all others who have been selected by their constituencies. To do otherwise will turn the party inwards and will not allow us to carry out conference policies which are needed to oppose the vieious policies of the Tory government, and which can lay the bosses, and the Tories. With Michael Foot around the ruling class can easily dispense with the services of Lord Denning. in his campaign against the left he would do no more than turn Labour into a less glamorous version of the SDP: that too would spell electoral disaster Labor Party is not just for the soul of that party but for its very existence.
because so much is at socialists must fight the civil war with every weapon they can lay their hands on.
ved themselves as deadly enemies of the Labour Party and they must be treated accordingly. They should he opposed in the constituencies, in the affiliated unions and at the party conference. for the party leadership. The left in the party needs to speed up its plans to launch a new orgnaisaPeter Tatchell - victim of the right wing witch hunt Even if Michael Foot succeeds So the battle underway in the Because it is so serious and stake, The Foot clique have now proof the witch-hunters Foot needs to be challenged 7 wonder if / should be on this extra-parliamentary demo?
tion on the lines already outlined tional executive should be flood resolutions defending Peter Tatchell, the Bermondsey Party, and all others who will be trapped in the ever-widening net As for Michael Foot, he was already a liability with the lowest rating of any leader since opinion polls began. Now he is a deadly threat to the party. He needs to be removed before he destroys the Photo TARRY HERMAN Labour Party. Even Ramsay MacDonald had SOLIC small degree of political principle, least he left the Labour Party before he tried to destroy it is now praised by the editorial of the right-wing Daily Telegraph On Tuesday it declared Foot was "absolutely right" to veto Peter Tatchell.
Such are Mr Foot's friends today. Let that be his epitaph.
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