Withdrawal from the London Labour Briefing conference. people heard Ken British troops, to remain in power.
He went on to say that the basis for the commitlee, 0l which he wasc THE NEWLY established Labour Committee for South Atlantic held its first public meeting last Saturday, during the Over 50 Livingstone, GLC Labour eader, denounce Thatcher for cynically killing hundreds, if not thousands of Argentinian and sponsor, was the bare minimum we should demanding. "Those islands are part of the continental land shelf of South America,' explained Ken Livingstone.
For the British to say that they had the right to 'free' Argentinian workers from the junta was the height of paternalism and racism. If on the first day, front bench had opposed Thatcher, there would have been no military adventure.
Tessa van Gelderen, Socialist Challenge had earlier taken up the same theme and argued that activists in the Labour Party had "settle accounts front bench conference'. That was why the Labour Committee had been set Labour party could give a lead in opposition to Thatcher's warmongering.
It was this 'adventure' in the South Atlantic that Lagan's porees in South light America and which had allowed Begin to claim if Thatcher could invade the Falklands he could invade Lebanon.
The overwhelming majority the meeting agreed with the necessity such committee take right into the heart of There was some discussion as to whether the basis should be broadened to in clude the right of Argentina to the islands but the general feeling seemed io that committee should be as broadly based possible, without avoiding the necessity leaders.
For further informato. about the activities Labour Committee Road Loan i Withdrawal Sos: Allantic Socialist Challenge 24 June 1962 pago 7
THE LABOUR right's attack on the Militant tendency is only its most recent attempt to rid itself of the left at the risk of destroying the party.
In the 1920s the Communist Party was banned and a mass campaign organised in its defence. Hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members, from constituencies disaffiliated because of their refusal to implement the ban, threw their weight behind the National Left Wing Movement.
It was only when the Communist Party itself ting horn.
Aneurin cies ilke Battersea elected and returned to parliament.
conference the first resolutions against the ty.
decision. started to communists.
In were leading Labour Party, betrayals of the union leaders, tion.
decision in THE sickening unanimity which! extended from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sun to craven leaders of Labour's front bench over the Malvinas war will be renewed this week. The target? Militant. It's open season for witches in the Labour Party again.
With due pomp and ceremony, Michael Foot, erstwhile champion of peace and socialists in the Labour Party, will sound the hunHe will explain that it is not the ideas of these people which are the problem. We know what support Foot has in the labour movemental me momentas re•ustereo in the polls. Rather it is the fact THE LABOUR PARTY did not always keep Communists out. When it was set up it had an affiliated structure and all working class organisations could take part. In constituenthe Communist Party not only affiliated but put up parliamentary candidates who were The right wing could not tolerate this and by 1925 had rammed through of a series of communists - in this case preventing them trom being individual members of the ParNearly 100 divisional and borough Labour parties refused to operate this neaaquariels disaffiliate those bodies that refused to implement the ban on December 1925 the National Left Wing Movement (NLWM) was founded to defend the left. Present members the the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party. Its aim was 'not to supersede the Labour Party but to "remould it nearer to the heart's desire" of the rank and file'. Both the attacks from the right wing in the party and the particular in the General Strike in May 1926, gave an impetus to its forma'Many were to regret that later years when the left in the party, robbed by their own that these people have the cheek to organise to present and defend them in the Labour Party. As one heckler at a Callaghan rally in Birmingham at the last election put it threatened 'yes...who let these socialists in? The platform clapped.
The hypocrisy . of the leadership is indicated by the lop. sided application organisation principle. We eagerly await the clamp down Committee for Transatlantic Understanding. to Callaghan's now inner party to reverse unilateralism.
The biggest affront of all is that Foot is the leader of a real 'party within the party'. His party is composed of the majority of the PLP and the majority of the barons of the trade union movement. They wage daily war in the party of constituency activists, millions of rank and file affiliated members, the LPYS and Party Conference.
Foot machinery built up by the labour movement sacrifice to destroy its democratic policies, campaigns on the sions.
mention marchea against missiles. thousands of health workers, rail workers and miners are going into battle with the Tories. Now is the Labour's front bench, palling They use the ing down.
over generations of and decipolicy Last week a quarter of a million Today the CPGB the TUC threat Things Communist Party 'It ambitious thirties ty loyalty chance for the labour leadershi to reverse the terrible effects ol its popularity created by its ap on Thatcher' bloody little war.
Foot can put Labour in the win ner's enclosure by leading join Labour/trade union action to br this wretched governmen In the thes mobilisations and trade union bat tles will be sufficient to stop th right organising any decisiv reversals at this year' Labour conference. But Foot wil do his best to put the party out side this vast upsurge of ange against the government.
Instead he will use the relativ isolation of the left created by hi 1927 was a year of transition for The trade union bureaucracy was campaigning against the activities of the Communist Party and the Minority Movement in the trade unions; at the some time the influence ot the left wing movement ir the Labour Party increased. Membership of the CPGB was declining, after an all time high, and the party leadership had acceded to the demands of trades of explusion, should disaf filiate from the Minority Movement.
reached head at the Ninth Plenum of the Communist International. A majority of the British Party argued that because of the party's activities with the Left Wing Movement, things were now extremely favourable to them. As historian L J Macfarlane explained, 'A genuine mass left wing opposition in the Labour Party was possible in the near future if the Communist continued with its policy working within the Labour Party' was the most bid by the left throughout the whole period of the to break the stultifying rigidity of Party alignment. The overwhelming bulk of both Conservative and Labour Parties believed that parmust take precedence over all other