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leading hunt. whole Socialist Challenge calls on all its readers to respond to the call put out by over fifty delegates, fifteen MPs and members of five trade union broad lefts at the Labour Party conference, to build the national conference to be held on 30 October at County Hall against the witchThis is an essential component of the wave of action now unfolding against the Tories; essential if we want a Labour government committed to socialist policies.
We call for resistance to expulsions to be organised at national, local and regional level. This resistance must organise all the forces of the labour movement as a first step against the attempted hijack of our movement by a right wing cabal whose cowardice in the face of the Tories is outweighed only by their fear of having to implement the policies to which the movement has been committed.
This is not just a fight for the constituencies but for the labour movement. Sidney Weighell showed his members exactly where he stood by his breaking of his mandate to saddle tham with a Healyite political leadership. and having the barafaced effrontory to defend that action. Conference of delegates from CLPs, unions, LPYS branches, LP branches, women's sections Labour against the Country Hall, London Contact: Labour against the witch-hunt 107 Nevill Rd, London N16.
This challenge has to be answered. Weighell and the righ wing have shown that the trade union left must place th battle in the Labour Party at the very centre of their strug gles for a new leadership. The support given to the 30 Oc tober Conference by sactions of the trade union left durin the Labour Party Conference is a welcome step in that dire tion. We further welcome with open arms the formation of new left group of MPs and the support which their leadin members have given to this movement of resistance.
The witch-hunt has exploded in its instigators face Now for the first time since 1969, the prospect exists of a ne tional left wing alliance between trade union, parliamentar and constituency force that can units, not just around th election of a Labour government and not just around le wing policies, but around an organised struggle to forc such a government to implement those policies.
That is why we finally welcome the proposal emergin from the new parliamentary group to convene a nation conference in the new year of MPs, trade union broad left and constituencies to join together in a fight for a Labou continued on page