next general election as a Labour candidate. No one has called for his expulsion from tha party.
Frank Field MP for Birkenhead has led witch-hunting moves against local Socialist Challenge supporters in the Labour Party. Yet he called on MPs who were not reselected to stand against official Labour candidates at the next election. The danger to the Labour Party and the labour movement as a whole comes from such people.
Every LP fend the right of Tarig and all socialists to come into the party More generally Socialist Challenge stands for an and to against far left organisations which are used to witch-hunt the whole of the left in the Labour Party. Only in this way can a potentially deadly weapon be removed from the hands of the right wing, and the way be opened for the Labour Party to become representative of all currents of opinion Marxist and non-Marxist in the working class.
All Socialists, whatever their differences with comrade Tariq, should campaign in support of his right to be inside the Labour Party.
Socialist Challenge 26 November 1981 page 2 activist and socialist should deall bans and proscriptions THE ATTEMPT by right wing supporters of Frank Field, MP for Birkenhead to witch-hunt Socialist Challenge supporters in the local party has ended in defeat.
Two Socialist Challenge supporters were called to attend a special executive meeting last Friday to 'explain themselves over a Socialist Challenge leaflet distributed at a Labour Party public meeting The leaflet, which call ed for support for Tony benn and anackeo curs. rent and rate rises was alleged to have been put out by the International Marxist Group.
On Thursday the EC, Socialist Challenge supporters put a motion to packed meeting of Oxten ward in Birkenhcad, which accounts for nearly one third of the total CLP membership, rejecting attempts by any section of the party to other party members.
The motion suppor ting the right of members socialist policies in the Labour Parincluding through the sale of papers like Socialist Challenge, Militant Socialist Organiser and Tribune, and calling on the EC to withdraw the atwas passed unanimously.
Al the special EC Socialist Chailenge supporters were not even called to attend The witchhunt resolution was withdrawn and the Socialist Challenge resolution carried , and passed on to the GMC The right wing arguments were exposed as bureaucratic attack designed to split the LaDOur LarLy D hunting members out of the partyin the that democratic political strug The Labour Party are tin are the only way to build a mass united party were unanswerable Frank Field MP now has to attend a special meeting in Birkenhead on