Wrp Raid

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Just as our last edition went to press the news broke of the police raid on the Derbyshire education centre of the Workers Revolutionar This raid was clearly timed to precede the Labour Party conference, and must be seen as part of a continuing campaign by the press and the Labour right wing to vilify and witch hunt any opposition to Wilson's policies. It is for this reaso inseperable from the press witch hunt of the militants in Newham N Labour Party (which culminated in the arrest of Tony Kelly, shortly before the crucial vote to remove Prentice), and the campaign of slander against the Militant group: in the weeks before the Conference The WSL therefore condemns unequivocally the police raid on the WRP, and all intervention of th capitalist state into workers' organisations. We support the WRP call for a trade union enquiry into these events. Those responsible for such interference must be forced out of the labour movement.

At the same time we have grave reservations about the political methods being employed by the WRP in their defence campaign. In particular, the exclusion of our comrades from the "public" WRP meeting on the issue in London on October 13th, while from the platform speakers demagogically demanded "Where does the WSL stand?" , indicates still further the subjectivism of the WRP leadership.