Left must unite against purge

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Fi Steering Committee trom the giant Left's Day ConferFight the Tories, not icialists, at-Wembley ptember 11 - has a able task ahead of it:

of regionwide camagainst witch-hunts unst all expulsions. lught to guard against hpaign getting bogged into a quagmire of wranglings about nise or when or where hould be held.

Steering Committee love forward not only volve CLPs, the is Sections, the groups, the Young its, but most definitetrade unions. As Wall so rightly said Annual Conference my of the trade union at the conference I their block vote and the wishes of their Conferences and recutive Committee's on on the issue - the ktreme example being imrade' Sid Weighell now being praised by Standard, Norman and all the hysterical ainst the union memits desires and reports from move a resolution seeking to support the October 30 Conterence.

It will be a great pity if our efforts to mobilise a gigantic campaign against the witch-hunt were to fail to reach out to the Women's Committees and, sections, and the large number of ethnic organisations, many of whom have been discriminated against and have been on the receiving end of the witch-hunts over the years.

The Campaign Against the Witch-hunt should' not be dominated - visually or otherwise - by the usual, all-male, white leadership that we have seen in the past. What about Women Against the Witch-hunt and Blacks Against the WitchThe Steering Committee agreed to organise one-day rallies and conferences against the witch-hunt to be held simultaneously on 27 November at London, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Bradford, Liverpool, . Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester; regional steering committees to be set up with membership to be drawn from both the CLPs and the trade unions and not for. getting the Co-ops and other ference and the expulsions.

The NEC may well be prepared to shut down a dozen parties., They.. will think twice before shucting down a hundred.

The central fight is to ensure that there are no expulsions following the setting up of the register. But the question for ieft wing papers and campaigns within the, party - as io whether they should register - cannot be dodged.

London Labour Biieling will not register, and we trust that this line will be followed throughout the Left... sections the ment.

Terrence O'Neil, President of the Bakers Union, who is Joint Chairperson of the Steering Committee, left no-one in doubt about the epormous task ahead and the challenge that looks the left in the eye.

Comrades, now is the time to end internecine strife on the left and unite on a broad front against the witch-hunt, the register and expulsions.

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