Crypto-Tories throw in the
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The Gang of Four and their parliamentary hangers-on have given up the fight to win back control of the Their resignation and establishment of a Parliamentary Committee for the Council for Social Democracy is a confession of defeat and a living example of the kind of antidemocratic methods they stand for. simply proclaimed themslave • of Four have "leaders' of their one-horse "party"-and their followers have refused to stand for election on their political positions in any of the 12 constituencies involved!
Having been elected with working class support, they have now declared openly their hostility to the trade unions-calling for wage controls, and laws against strikes.
While their rootless "party" must soon merge with the Liberals or submerge altogether, the real danger to be fought now within the Labour Party is the Gang's co-thinkers in the Hattersley-Shore 'Labour Solidarity' grouping.
The right wing is fighting back strongly: it is in opposing this challenge that the Rank and File Mobilising Committee can continue to play a useful role inside the Labour Party.
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