Workers Revolutionary Party: attempt to gag left press

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Alan Thornett, BL Cowley militant, branded a 'police agent' by the WRP. VANESSA Redgrave, the Workers Revolutionary Party's best known member, against the printers of left newspapers Organiser and Socialist Press because they carried articles explaining the anti-working class character of the WRP.

Using the capitalist legal system to intimidate and suppress labour move. mc Jarais is part ana parcel of the openly anti-working class OI this degenerate organisaLed the WRP's main public acuvity for several years nas been campaign disruption the Fourth International.

The leadership Socialist Workers Party in the USA — co-thinkers of Ine ri — and Tariq Ali in Britain have been subject to the absurd accusation that they are leaders of DOLE the and the KGB the first time that the WRP predecessor, the Socialist Labour League - has resorted to this type of activity 1966 Ernie Tate then a leading member of the r. after being beaten up. Tate was seling literature thai has issued writs Socialist exposed the nature of Healy's organisation.

Two labour movement pap seace Labour Leader and were obliged to publishing he detail for details of his incident after Healy threatened to financially bankrupt the through legal action.

The WRP has also engaged in a systematic fingering of class struggle and Trotskyist militants in the factories.

Alan Thornett, a leading steward and Trotskyist militant at BL in Cowley, has been branded as a 'scab' and 'police agent' in leaflets handed out at the factory gates by WRP members.

This is a practice of the WRP which has been plunecicu and sysituatically persued in the United States leading Trotskyist militants in the factories are similarly branded. Coworkers are visited.

The intormation NOT THE COURTS We, the undersigned, condemn Vanessa Red. grave's and the WRP's use of the courts against the labour movement press. We support the proposal that a labour movement inquiry be set up to invest. igate the statements made in the Socialist Organ. iser article.

NAME Return to Labour Movement Press Defence Fund, c/o 214 Sickert Court, London N1 2SY A LABOUR INQUIRY, ORGANISATION Socialist Challenge 23 April 1981 . 'Page 1'