over ine past year ine Revolutionary Party, neaded by Gerry Healy, has conducted campaign against Workers Party Docialist United states and -TWO veteran seaders. Joseph and George Novack.
Healey followers various countries have published anticies and pampnels, nic meetinos ane aisinouted leatlets and posters accusing Hansen gence' in Trotsky's assassination and of being 'accomplices of the CPU inat Inev covered up crimes of the Soviet police and shielded Throughout the duals and groups representing d rainer wide range or tentencies in the left have spoken out against statement declaring that the slanders consuluTe rame lo. a numer or ine sienatories were personally involved in the defence campaign for Leon Some of the signers of this statemen seone to no orcanised represent groups or organisations workers -nocino similar views question whatever the SWP WIll hansen issues.
The signers of tne statement felt obliged to speak out in def ence held pub- the SWP against the paign They express concern negli- practice of such disruptive meth Rods in the workers movement and others who share doN Have tion that frame-ups have no place The ne somalist movement to dac its their voice of protest and public condemnation.
indiviresponse to ouonic meeune was been Iser -Loncon signed a January to publicly defend workers democracy and oppose the use shameless of slanders and frame-ups WaY Serine -ences Speakers Will include Mandel, Novack, Viang Pi wil be in Time Wolforth meola In paign. It followed Franco's doctrine that non-participation repretheir special sented an anton to me rec diber on Therefore no propaganda facilities were allowed to any of the partie of the Democratic Coordination or the revolutionary left.
There is a simple reason for this. and Novack and smear cam- If it had allowed air time to the left, rather than the extreme right, the terrain on which the campaign about was fought would have shifted from banal democratic rhetoric to the very real questions of political prisoners, the 40 police murders in the last year, the illegality of the working class organisations, the undemocratic electoral procedure this appeal a for the proposed Cortes and the whole range of democratic liberties which are still suppressed.
DEMOCRACY Ernes As it was, there can be little Pierre and Tim doubt that a large portion of the Government's vote was a vote for