based on violence safe for the doctor or threatened by militias.
by Reagan's anti-communist crusade.
In the first place it is much more dangerous for anyone in the third world who has the temertty to question the domination of a social order and exploitation.
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threatened by the death squads, the Nicaraguan teacher under threat from the 'contras' or the Palestinian refugee in the camps the murderous All the reactionary forces in the world have had their military and politicat strength boosted But the world is a much more tant meetings.
Much less tant unionist Phalangist the dangerous The expulsions also follow the decision of the year to ban sales of Milial Conflict The expulsions firm the new tactics in the witch hunt which are being pursued. The majority of CLPs are today sufficiently against witch hunts that a centralised purge against Militant or the left would meet massive resistance inside the Party. Four fifths of CLPs voted against the expulsion of the five Milieditorial board members at the Party con ference. The witch hunt is therefore being pursued in two ways.
The first is to set up in the mechanisms for witch the paper.
newspaper revenue. comes down to one thing.
views in the Labour Party.
is! ONE OF the chief charges against Militant Blackburn is that its supporters raise money for This charge is pure hypocrisy. There is not a paper in Britain which can get by on income from sales. There are only two sources of income a has to survive. One The second is fund raising from readers and suporters. With its political views Militant, needless to say, is not going to get the type ol advertising revenue from capitalist firms enjoyed by say the Guardian, the New Statesman or other publications of the Labour right.
The charge that Militant is acting improperly by raising money from its readers and supporters in which the bourgeoisie is prepared to advertise should be allowed to exist and campaign for their A superb example of democratic socialism that actually against That only those papers the only force the LCC has been organising the so-called hard left. If the LCC were to win control of CLP: away from the left then the way would be open for a central purge of the left.
Expelling individual supporters left wingers costs the NEC witch hunters no price the LCC wins in the CLPs then the witch nunt can go forward from localised exhulsions to a central witch stakes the Blackburn expulsions are therefore very high indeed. Militant has undoubtedly alienated many in the left wing of the party by its secundemocratic manipulaof organisations wing policies on many But the politics of the Militant are not the point. These can and should be against by democratic means. To acSwitch puige hunts in the Party will not merely harm the left wing but tear Labour apart. The expulsions in Blackburn be throughout the Party.
Against the Hunt CLPD conference, which starts this weekend, should start that fight. Chief witch hunter John Golding