Opposed | Socialist Action 1983

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porters tried to get Labour CND to give money to Socialist Action • The LIE that Socialist Action supartificially On top of these lies come the new revelations about *1000 moles inside the Labour Party Make no mistake, this witch hunt is not just aimed at Socialist Action. It is designed to finger every leftwinger in the Labour every activist, every CNDer, every feminist, every activist on democratic rights, every black activist. It is designmake all of subversives moles. conspirators. It is a witch hunt aimed at the whole of the left.

The witch hunters say we work by methods of conspiracy, VOLC rigging and deception. But the very opposite is true. It We are opposed in principle to the suppres sion of free debate and to VULC rigging the hallmarks of the capitalist class and its agents in the labour movement.

The very object of the witch hunt is to prevent a free discussion of socialist ideas in the labour moveelsewhere.

Anyone in the movement, anyone in CND or the peace movement, who lines up with the witch hunters is lining up with our bitterest enemies -the Tories the capitalist press. These enemies want to use the press to take away basic rights of the movement - to decide which papers to read, to elect who we want to positions, to decide our own Through Action, appeal to socialist, every

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