to Wales LP conference Labour Party conference last week.
pulsion of Trotskyists.
The vote these resolutions went against the Wales Labour Party executive's recommendation to support a posite resolution which called for democratic reselection and an end to the witch-hunt.
Photo: PETE GRANT (Socialist Challenge)
Stop press: Tariq Ali has just received his member ship card. At the time of writing Eric Heffer is about to visit Hornsey Labour Party. The decisions of the Wales Labour Party will not aid the fight that is looming inside the party. A BLOW against democracy and for the right inside the Labour Party was struck at Wales Resolutions were passed which called for an inquiry into various groups in the party and for the proscribing of the Militant Tendency and the exRight wing MP for Swansea West, Alan Williams, claimed that the left had started the witchhunt with their demands reselection of MPs.
OUCh pathetic arguments, which confuses reselection ana expulsion, snowed ure democracy is held by the right wing. It was the right union, Tenera and Municipal Workers, which initiated these blatant attacks on the left — backed by the engineering amoni.
Unfortunately the transport union abstained on all these resolutions and allowed the right to win. George Wright Wales TGWU (as well as SCUICLary of of the Wales TUC), claimed that to do otherwise would have 'split' the union delegation. Yet opposition to the iș part of the TGWU's national policy.
An abstention meant in fact a vote for the right and cannot unanswered. Derek Gregory, secretary public employees' union, NUPE which opposed the witchhunt argued, 'Yes we need basis of implementation ot on the decided policies. Otherwise conmace mockery of and we need a valle leadership WICI supports party policy. Labour cabinets have departed these policies in the past and there has been infiltration from the right for many years, such Shirley Williams and Reg Prenlice.
This hypocrisy of the right was highlighted by N.U.M MARDY LODGE Dave Warren, Swansea LPYS, who pointed to Labour Solidarity, an organised tendency of the right wing in the party and who call for the expulsion of the Militant tendency.
As Derek Gregory continued. " don't support the Militant tendency. think SONG their infantile. Wales National Union of Mineworkers opposed the witch-hunt in the Labour Party, unlike the TGWU But I defend absolutely their. right to put their arguments torward in this party? Now the decisions of the Wales Labour Party threatens that right more than ever. The role of the TGWU shows the need to continue to take up all opposition to bans and proscriptions and to take that fight right into the heart of