IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Mortimer and Militant

Socialist Challenge No. 269, 12 November 1982 · p. 3 of the scan · 223 words

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placed on the sales organisers and candidates.

Militant or they get booted out.

fulltimers and officers, onslaught on the YS.

ing floated by the right wing, Walworth Road bureaucracy.

Labour Party leadership gets ready for a purge suring that as many Labour Party and Socialist banners as possible are there.

Copies are address printed on the leaflet. JIM MORTIMER's ideas for dealing with the Militant have been published and they're pretty horrifying. Five are to be sacked outright and a political gag parliamentary Either they renounce all links with the Moreover Mortimer extends his proposals to YS opening the way to an Much worse, however, are the proposals now bewhich include a wholesale ban on the selling of Militant at YS branches and suggestions that the LPYS should be placed under the direct control either of the CLPs or the The witch-hunt, as we said it would, is extending. As Thatcher gets ready for an election, the The newly formed 'Labour Against the Witch. hunt' has begun to get organised. Its first action will be the lobby on 24 November, which we urge our readers to support and build - particularly by enYoung which should be taken in ta epry Labour Party and print the campaign's basic leaflet, trade union organisation possible to win support.

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