Labour Lefts Must Launch Piirce of Crypto Tories of Crypto Tures Pirge

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"There are too many of these people who have infiltrated this party already. Get them out!"

These words referred not to the increasingly blatant dominance of extreme right wingers and cryptoTories within the bureaucratic ranks of the Labour leadership, but were used by Prime Minister Callaghan in an attempt to further stir up the atmosphere of witchhunt against left wingers within the . KNIGHTHOOD His speech, delivered in Leeds, was publicised simultaneously with a similarly vicious attack on Labour militants, by Sir Harold Wilson, whose very Knighthood speaks volumes of his cringing services to British capitalism.

Wilson's speech, like many, of the recent speeches by the right wing, exposed almost in spite of itself the moribund state of Constituency Parties in which the right wing holds sway.

Apparently nothing is easier than infiltrators" a few "bed-sitter to move in and commandeer a CLP for their own purposes.

[Of course the proportion of workers living in bed-sitters has massively increased as a result of the policies of Wilson-Callaghan cutting house-building and increasing mortgages.] INDIVIDUALS Appropriately, therefore, Wilson in seeking a weapon to attack inese for an increase sin individual so-called "infiltrators" membership of the Labour Party -in other words a conscious turn to middle class layers more likely to provide support for the right wing.

At the same time a turn to more hidebound and, bureaucratised layers within the Labour Party is indicated in Wilson's proposal that any delegate to a General Management Committee must have appeared on two successive electoral registers - aiming to rule out new and young members who are : the most likely to mount a serious challenge to the leadership.

Yet while the right-wing, with the whole hearted support of the capitalist press, moves onto the offensive, the Labour "lefts" can only come up with the most puerile and spineless reply.

40,22010 7. 410010wisd PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report Eric Heffer and Joan Lestor, for example, have tabled a resolution for the next meeting of the National Executive which deplores "unsubstantiated and hysterical allegations" - but seeks only to preserve a peaceful coexistence between "left' and right in the MOAN While Heffer and Lestor simply moan about "a frenzied witchhunt", Callaghan and Healey are all set to launch a new package of economic policies which will drive yet another nail into the coffin of Labour's election prospects, while the Tories wait delightedly in the Infiltrator: Healey sharpening their own knives.

RIGHT WING

We say it is high time there was a serious witch-hunt in the Labour Party - directed at those extreme right wingers who each day drive home new attacks on the members they were elected to represent.

It is high time that 'left' talkers such as Heffer and Lestor were put on the spot. Do they, or do they not stand for the right of Healey and Callaghan to act in the name of th Labour Party while carrying out Tory policies?

And what is the position of the centrists in the Militant group, at whom all this venom is supposedly directed? PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report prepared to pick up the gauntlet contemptuously thrown down by the right-wing - or will they join Tribunites Heffer and Lestor in collapsing completely before any confrontation takes place?

CLASS RESISTENCE

The right wing attack is not aimed at the spineless Militant group - but at the growing solid core of working class resistance now beginning to find a retlection inside the Labour "Party and challenge the monopoly hold of the Callaghan clique.

It is an attack flowing not from strength but from weakness.

Now is the time for principled Labour Party militants to campaign for a programme of socialist policies and for the removal of all MPs and representatives who refuse to fight for them.

It is possible that in this fight some of the best forces in the Labour Party will be bureaucratically expelled for their stand - but better to take on such a fight than to tolerate Tory policies today in the vain hope of a 'left' swing by the Callaghan leadership tomorrow.

Infiltrator: Callaghan PHOTO: Chris Davles, Report PHOTO:

Heffer peaceful