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Red Weekly No. 97, 17 April 1975 · p. 9 of the scan · 372 words

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Press, 15 March 1975). so-called "Interational Committee.

In Holivia the WRP launched a sland crous string of accusations against Hugo Moscose, leader of the Bolivian section of the Fourth International, accusing him of being a Governinent agent This was designed to hide their own bloc with the opportunist Lota-a blos which bore its fruits when Lora supported the alusion that the military regime of Torres would ani the workers against a rightist coup In Ceylon they charged Fourth Inter national militant Bala Tampoe with being an agent of imperialimo faccusing him of ping on trips to the LISA to hold private discussions with American Secretary of Detence, MeNamara!), to hide the fact that their own group in that country had totally failed to solidarise with the revo Jutionaries of the JVP when they fell Gerry Healy, Secretary of the WRP in recent weeks the leadership of the Workers Revolutionary Party has unleashed a stream of slanders against the IMG which has had few equals. The WRP has declared that the IMG is harbouring "police agents" and 'agents provocateurs in its ranks (Workers Press, 12 March 1975), and accuses it of collusion with Scarman (Tribunal) and the police (Workers These accusations are just a small part of the steady stream of filth, directed against other organisations of the revolutionary left, which has poured out of the WRP recently. It also stands in a long tradition of WRP slander campaigns, which have been regularly and systematically used to divert attention away from the political bankruptcy of the WRP and its victim to a vicious wave of Government repression Last ycar in Hritain they invented the "Lawless alTair" to cover over theit own capawnon to boast em pena ise co the question of Ireland. Now they ane trying to conceal their abysmal failure to deal with the threat from the far-right and take any part in the growing antifascist movement by launching an hysterical witch hunt against IMG mditants.

PRECAUTION An outstanding feature of all these slander campaigns has been that the WRP choos to make them at precisely the moment that the recipients are coming under attack from the capitalist stato Red Lion Square - where was the WRP? EQUAL PRY NOM

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