Tariq Ali, trying to make his voice heard in TARIQ ALl, former editor of Socialist Challenge. has left the Marxist Group and applied for membership of the Labour Party.
His decision has already attracted the attention of the media and the right wing of the Labour Party, and led to calls for him to be excluded. Denis Healey immediately announced on BBC's Newsnight programme that 'the line had to be drawn somewhere' over so called 'entrism': the Daily Mail editorialised in its usual venomous anti-labour movement tones that Tariq was a political rat joining a sinking ship': and the Morning Star waded in with a report likely to strengthen the witch-hunters 'WELL-BALANCED' comment on the outcome of last week's Shadow cabinet elections. He had every right to be pleased. The new parliamentary leadership has an even stronger right wing majority. 10-5, than before.
THOSE noticeable in the results TESTIC SUCCESS of those Labour leaders who have been in the toretront of attacking the party let as a and ony Benn in Ramans and for Had tersley, all members of the right wing Solidarity.
And the left who made the most : poll was Neil Kinno who has specialised over the past year in stabbing Benn in the back It was Kinnock who co-ordinated the abstentions of Tribune leadership contest which secured Healey's victory. was Denis Healey's refuse to confirm that they will stay in the Labour Party, as Islington South MP George Cunningham who received 66 votes in the Shadow cabinet clections, has refused to do before his reselection?
The Labour leadership and their right wing allies don't inspire any confidence among working people of their commitment to radical change and socialist policies Even John Backhouse who stood for Labour in Crosby on the basis of campaigning TOT policies, stood little chance of halting the SDP handwagon with the millstone the national party Neil Kinnock specialises in stabbing Benn in the back leadership round his neck.
The right wing of the party have signailed an all-out attack on the left with their vilification of Benn and their witch hunting moves against the far left.
Gone Gone are the appeals for unty tor the sake of the party. Instead the parliamentary leadership is taking the Labour Party down the road to electoral Boride to the worn-ubpolicies of the last two CADDUE COVETECHL It is time for the left in the Labour Party to get organised. Nationally and locally socialists should aght to turn the abou Party into a mass campaigning party against the i ones, ano to comman tae next Labour government to socialist policies.
tack on 'the right of party members to fight for their Eric Heffer, prisoner of a right wing Shadow Cabinet Joan Lester, the new Shadow minister for women and social affairs 10 December to explain his letter to The Times on calling on MPs wno arc not selected stand against the official candidate and to take loyal members of the Labour Party' with them Field has resigned as Ted Heslin back in Oxford Labour Party hunters, ing papers such as Socialist Organiser happy with the 57/29 vote on Heslin.
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front bench junior education spokesperson. He announced at the weekend that he had done so to give him more time to conduct further attacks on the Militant and Olner ch wing newspaper supporters in the Labour Party OXFORD Labour Party members voted last week to readmit Ted Heslin into the local party after a three year battle against the local right wing witchThough Hestin undertook not to repeat the crifical statements against the party that the national executive had criticised, Eric Heffer from the NEC made it clear that this did not exclude sellNot everyone in Oxford Labour Party was Included among the notable dissenters were Lord McArthy, shadow spokesperson on industry in the Lords Olive Gibbs, former CND president, and Bill Con-