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the appearance of the Trotskyist weekly tradition which some them.' It seems that not only has forgotten his own supporters in Southampton have as well.
Socialist meetings as members of the party.
about our activities in these grounds, many • This letter, which was also sent to the rest of the left press, has already appeared in Tribune of 24 In 1952, Michael Foot, then editor of Tribune, greeted Outlook with the following remarks: "l don't agree with many of the things that you say in Socialist Outlook but, in accordance with the good socialist socialists oCClll to forgotten, will certainly fight for your right to say Foot himself advice but leading Over four months ago we applied to join the Labour Party. Our respective ward branches approved our applications and we started to attend ward and Young Then, at the end of November, we received a letter from the local agent informing us that a 'query has arisen over your application' and asking us to appear before the executive committee. There we were asked support of the newspaper Red Weekly. These consisted of speaking on a Red Weekly platform, sitting behind a bookstall at the local university, and selling Red Weekly. These activities were held to be proof of support [not membership] of another political organisation.
members of Executive Committee of the party, such as those who outside the party with us.
Socialist have Again leading motions. socialist On National appear on Morning Star platforms, would today be Those leading the witch-hunt against us were not the right wing of the party but the 'left', in particular Alan Whitehead, prospective parliamentary candidate for the New Forest and a supporter of Tribune and the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.
Although our membership was approved by the EC the GMC the following week voted first to suspend our membership for six months, second resolution to refuse membership altogether.
Tribune supporters supported It is clear that we have been witch-hunted out of the party because of the political positions we hold and not because of the alleged support we have giver another political organisation. We have opposed the present policies of the Labour Government and put forward a socialist programme which bases itself on the defence of the working class. the 'right' we expected, but not from the so-called It leads us to believe that either the local Tribune group has been taken over by the Social Democratic Alliance or that the Tribune supporters are so lacking in confidence in their policies that they are afraid of democratic debate within the party. — MIKE TUCKER. STEVE FERIS (Southampton)
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