attacks On Sunday 28 November, 100 Special Branch and uniformed police orticers compiete with dogs raided a nouse in Derby not only nao snow on their boots some nac even written study centre. The raid came only hours after the publication by the Observer of the confessions of an actress, Irene Gorst, who claimed to have been 'interrogated' for seven hours by members of the WRP Central Committee - bar a two-hour lunch break.
The real reason for the raid was onlv too clear. The same day. on the same page. the Observer printed details of the Social Democratic Alliance's red-baiting attack on eleven members or mme Labour rare vationar executive, the mornino star.
•There is a common purpose in these actions, as in earlier attacks - again spearheaded by the Observer - on the Mit itant grouping. This is to present all left wing opponents of the wilson Government and its policies as sinister groups operating in a mysterious world of plots and infiltrations. In this way political issues can be buried beneath a McCarthysuvie nysterla.
In the case of the WRP the process has gone one dangerous sten Turther. The police have been used on a massive scale in an act of outright political intimidation. How soon, may we wonder, will it be before a national committee meeting ot a revoutionar arous secomes a crimina consoiracy.
All socialists must unhesitatingly rise to the defence of the democratic rights of the WRP and oppose the witchment by Eric Heffer -was an indication of the disquiet of the rank the National Union of Mineworkers rightThese elever La sacked Minister and file with the present leaders. Sid Vincent, revolution is growing.
NO WELCOME FOR SOAPES CIS. ents.
red weekly 9 october 1975
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