SOCIALIST ACTION is under sustained attack. First we had the Cowley 'revelations', then the lies about our supporters in CND, and now the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph hysteria about Socialist Action supporters inside the Labour Party.
Our offices have been literally besieged by reporters. photographed outside reporters camped on their doorsteps.
Neighbours, employers, relations, friends have been closely questioned about every aspect of our supporters lives. waged to make it impossible for us to engage in political activity.
Socialist Action Some of our supporters have been A sustained campaign is being We are not going to submit to this witch hunt, which aims to drive us out of the labour movement and vilify our ideas.
But to fight back we need your help. We need you to put motions opposing the witch hunt in the Labour Party and trade unions. We need you to send resolutions and messages of support to the paper.
But above all we desperately need money to fight the witch hunters, to get out the truth about We appeal to everyone in the labour movement to aid us in this fight, and to send us a donation, no matter how small. Send your letters of support and donations now to Socialist Action, 328 Upper Street, London NI.
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Socialist Action Jay should the press unleash one of the most be anti-nuclear movement — and openly advise the L management that they should sack people for heir political views.
Obviously the reason is pitalist class fears that it that the about to be overthrown revolutionary socists. NOT Goes abour right wing believe •* Marxism is about ize the leadership of the the unions. Neverless, the witch hunt just a product of the 'silly season' as me have attempted to smiss it.
The witch hunt is part an attempt by the pitalist inmidate crush the tole left wing the movement, to ake out that militants in unions bour irraonal fanatics.
Since the general elecdespite the best efits of the capitalist class ad the labour right wing, I has not gone completely according to their plans.
plan which aims, by hitting the whole left, to bring the political situation HOIC completely under control.
At the time of the general all the most serious representatives of British capiatlism Hike the Economist and Financial Times, and with them the Labour right, the Tories and the Alliance, • had a clear target to smash the Labour lett.
Most representatives of British capitalism saw the way ahead clearly. Thatcher should be returned to 10 Downing Street. Labour should electorally crushed and the right wing should take witch hunt?
over the Labour leadership again. The right wing then for coalition oriculatol to the SDP-Liberal Alliance.
Tactical The call of Frank Chapple and Roy Grantham for votes for the SDP Liberals, the editorials of the Statesman urging 'tactical voting', the demands of to vote for the Allance Guardian for and Labour' were all part of this policy. The goal is to create what the Economist called the 'desirable coalition' of 'southern Alliance and northern Labour' the sole alternative to Thatcher. both government "opposition' under control, British capitalism's interests would be safeguarded.
This question of getting politically Orcoarcu 10I coalition with the SDP and Liberals is absolutely fundamental for British capitalism.
The Sun may tell its readers that Thatcher capitalist class itself does not believe for Sir Geoffre!
Howe went out of his way to say the day election that the Tories were not going to stay office for ever. David Steel pointed Britain is not going to become a one ally state. The Economist finished editorial on the general election as follows:
'The electoral system has ensured that there can be up to five clear years of necessary economi changes before the electoral issue will be faced again. Then it could be the Conservative Party, mauled in what has become the electoral lottery, that joins the (electoral)
with more than a touch of The Penrith byethat the support of the Thatthe economic and political all impregnably stable storms which are to come in British society.
Given that British capitalism does not believe that Thatcher is politically invincible for the next five of its most urgent tasks is to that there exists only an 'acceptable' opposition to Thatcher — that is an opposition which doesn't actually oppose anything major which capitalism This means that it snould be a Labour and opposition which in practice doesn't fight the Thatcher government's policies, and which accepts that the only way will be allowed into office alliance with the SDP and Liberals. All policies whereby Labour actually opposes the interests COT British capitalism must be eliminated that means defeating the Labour left.
old boy." hunt, How the Mirror saw it: 'mole' hunts become fashionable with the ruling class.
Hattersley and Shore are fighting for acceptance of incomes policy, CND leadership and E.P. Thompson are leading the fight to dump unilateral nuclear disarmament policy.
Policies In those circumstances both British Cabilallsill and the Labour right wing Have a stone accu lo ury to stamp out the resistance to their policies. • it Is not the 'moles' they are directly scared of but the fact that there are thousands of labour movement tivists who are not supporters of Socialist Action but have concluded out of their own experience that they are against incomes policies, against membership of the for type of politics the witch hunters are trying to force through. It is not going to be easy crush all these quite involuntary 'moles'.
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cious witch hunts for years about 13 socialists in owley. Why should the Guardian jump on the adwagon with pure fiction about the activity of cialists in CND, trying to whip up a red scare in
attack on the whole left Why the