fional executive, while in Gillingham moves to susgeneral committee.
A third person - - Mary Turner who, THOUSE not a Militant supporter, participated in a protest sale was also reprieved.
Rhondda is worrying witch-hunt for the left, not only because a small general committee voted through an expulsion against the original advice of the NEC, but also because the vole on the NEC to expel Brychan Wat of Neil Kinnock. was lost only The lesson from this 1s that the present NEC is a witch-hunting one. fact recently confirmed by Kinnock's statements on the Weekend programme: that the whole of Militant should be expelled, the only problem being that expulsions could only take place under the present rules wien menocI ship of another organisation had been proved.
Statements like this show the importance of Kinnock's attempt to introduce a 'loyalty clause' based on absolilc sanctity of parliamentary The idea of expelling the whole of Militant on political grounds was also central to the right's case in Gillingham. 'Revolutionaries, Was said, should go and set up their own party'. It was clear that the suspensions were proposed as a hardeningнАн for future expulsions.
Carol Turner The witch-hunt is just nock's ece of Neil Kinjigsaw, albeit important It forms part of his plans to sanitise the party - to dissociate it from the class struggle, to John Golding: architect of past witch-hunts THE LABOUR Coordinating Committee this week Tal
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porters came to a head last week. In Rhondda, the expulsion of Brychan Davies was upheld by his con- stituency party, after being referred back by the na-
pend David Turner and Tony Baker for defying a ban on the sales of Militant were kicked out by the