Labour MPs who voted for Powell: | Socialist Action 1983

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Allen Adams (Paisley), Donald Anderson (Swansea), Jeremy Bray (Motherwell), Dale (South Shields), Tom Clarke (Monklands), Don Dixon (Jarrow, Harry Ewing (Falkirk E), Frank Field (Birkenhead), Norman Godman (Greenock), James Hamilton (Motherwell), Peter Hardy (Wentworth), Norman Denis Howell (Small Lloyd (Stratford), Geoffrey Lofthouse (Pontefract), Hugh McCartney (Clydebank), Marshall (Shettleston), Michael Martin (Springburn), Bruce Millan (Govan), Austin (Riverside); Tom Pendry (Stalybridge), Peter David Young (Bolton SE). Campbell Savours (Workington), David Clarke Michael Cocks (Bristol S), Harry Cowans (Tyne Bridge), Jim Craigen (Maryhill), Eric Deakins (Walthamstow), Donald Dewar (Barscadden), Richard Douglas (Dunfermline W), Albert Duffy (Attercliffe), Heath), David Lambie (Cunninhame S), Ron Lewis (Carlisle), Terence Lewis (Worsley), Tony Kevin McNamara (Kingston üpon Hull), David Mitchell (Gt Grimsby), Gordon Oakes (Halton), William O'Brien (Normanton), Robert Party Pike (Burnley), George Robertson (Hamilton), Smith (Monklands E), Nigel Spearing (Newham S), James Tinn (Redcar), James White (Pollock),

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THIS is the second leader that Tribune sas felt obliged to devote to the Militant roblem in seven weeks. That in itself is omment enough on how embarking on * purge generates its own momentum to he point where it can dominate aroblem created tv all mool clearly some on the Right who see thi enquiry as the means to a preconceiver end. They probably already have a lis they want expelled. Such. ar approach must be opposed by a parts which is just about to launch a *free dom and fairness" campaign But neither can the Left naively cal for "no expulsions", If the enquiry inte comes up with hard evidence with the diff, Isle of Wight, fact that he voted for the Liverpool enquiry.

The atmosphere created has encouraged the right to use administrative means to exclude dissent in the constituencies they control. DESPITE ASSURANCES at the 1982 Labour Party conference that the NEC was only seeking to dea editorial board, the persecution of supporters of Militant has spread to those who sell the paper. Cases have come to light in Coventry, CarWrexham, Liverpool elsewhere. The recent vote, by 14:13, to expel Sheffield councillor Paul Green for selling Militant was condemned by David Blunkett as foolish despite the Emitted to the GC between March 1985. When the CLI discovered that three unions submitted names of persons who Socialist Action 17 January 1986 Local party members who have given evidence against the person being disciplined, or whose credentials have been questioned, have been An early meeting of Labour Against the Witch-Hunt, sel up by constituencies to defend socialists from expulsion In view of the in tolerant atmosphere now developing the and the need to fight back a conference has been ar ranged Labour Left