Newsline, paper of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, has launched a new slander campaign against Alan leading militant in BL's Cowley and a leader League.
he smear tactics or the wRe amount to the suggestion that the WSL is not a political tendency, but a bunch of provocateurs.
Two documents have Newsline to suggest that Thornett is a vocateur who is 'loving up to the Pabloites'. Both of these documents have been stolen, one from Thornett himself, and one from the interhouse in December 1977 was a letter from a police college asking seminar on connice m sociely. suca leuers are sent to numerous people in public life; it is ludicrous to suggest that Thornett is in any way either friendly because he received such a letter.
The document stolen from the IMG headquarters was a personal letter from Thornett to Tariq Ali, enclosing some political documents Val 5 No2
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Why is the WRP reverting to these slander methods? The answer has to be sought in the fate of a once-Trotskyist organisation which has degenerated into a lumpen sect. More and more the WRP has come to rely on funding by a few petty-bourgeois 'super-stars'.
The distance between the WRP and reality has become greater and greater. WRP is becoming a transmission belt for some of the cruder aspects of petty-bourgeois Arab nationalism and the Khomeini regime in Iran.
Combined with this political degeneration, the WRP is becoming enmeshed in a paranoid wonderland of spies and provocateurs. frenzy is an attempt to cover up the political crisis of the WRP, previously leading members like Royston Bull out of the organisation.
The slanders and smears of this vile sect against a serious revolutionary like Thornett is contemptible. The time has come when the WRP can no longer be regarded as a part of the workers' movement, let alone anything to do with Trotskyism.
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