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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-11-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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Vanessa Redgrave of the WRP is attempting to ruin Socialist Organiser by legal costs through taking us to the High Court for libel. To defend our right to publish and speak the truth, we need money. Send to Labour Movement Press Defence Fund, 214 Sickert Ct, Loncon N1 2SY what happened between himself, the Oxford Mail, and the police, "may be acceptable to the Trades Council, but it is completely unacceptable to the WRP, a party whose task is to fight for the revolutionary leadership of the working class as part of the struggle for workers' power"
(That is, their 'tauk' is to discredit, by fair means or foul, a Marxist paper like Socialist Organiser and its supporters). tendencies in the working class movement"
Well, not quite. An organisation which sues Socialist Organiser writers for saying, among other things, that it is like the Moonies rather than a political tendency, and yet did not sue us for saying and repeating that there is wide suspicion that it receives money from Arab bourgevis governments, is no ordinary part of the working class movement. FUND