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Socialist Press no. 230, 14 January 1981 · scan pp. 5–6 · about 254 words

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London WC1N 3XX s Socialist League. sent to the CND.

"I had forgiven what that Mrs Litterick, Then I read that. woman had done to me" It was too much."

«Now I am making it clear 1 will move heaven and earth to get his body back and have it cremated in Coventry." "

Litterick's funeral was disrupted by photographers and TV camera crews trying to get pictures of "the two women in his life" and reporters regretting that there was no punch-up.

Even in death the capitalist class loses no opportunity for a defence of its oppressive bourgeois institutions.

It is not too squeamish to trample on the living and the dead to do so.

In doing so they cannot harm Litterick. To have earned the unyielding hatred of the gutter Tory press is perhaps one epitaph of which he would have approved.

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n Lister it is in these unfavourable conditions that the Party's anti-socialist right wing is forced to contemplate its chances of reversing the decisions of last October's conference.

Shirley Williams has already effectively given up. David SOCIALIST PRESS, their rcadiness to split if the Party refuses to toe their political line. Roy Mason has warned that he would run against an official Labour candidate in Barnsley if he is not reselected for another term.

Because behind them they would leave the real Labour Party-the mass membership, electoral" support and union financial support.

And the desertion of the right wing would force this apparatus into the hands of the

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 230, 14 January 1981