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in the ranks of the Labour Party poses the Tribuneite lett and Hetter with the question of questions. Are they prepared to put down a motion of no confidence in Wilson in the Parliamentary Labour Party, as an opening shot in a struggle to remove his as once again to collapse in Mont of the right wing without a fight as has happended over the Shrewsbury Two, and Jenkins' so-called. "Prevention of Terrorism" Act?
On the Market issue there is alread a small PLP majority against Market entry. The Labour Party conference has voted solidly against entry, and has never changed that position. The majority of the trade union movement also is firmly opposed to the Common Market. Heffer himself said in the Parliamentary speech for which he was sacked. "There has in my opinion been no fundamental renegotiation. I do not accept that the terms of the (Labour Party) manifesto have been achieved. The treaties have not been amended. Then surely, if Labour Party conference decisions are not to be made a mockery by the Wilson-Jenkins clique, Heffer is obliged to campaign throughout the Party and the trade union movement for Wilson's removal.
The Workers Socialist League is clearly against Common Market entry on any terms, and therefore opposed to the traudulent notion of "renegotiation" which was inCONTINUED ON BACK PAGE All the speculation about a "co promise" government in Phnom has been shattered by Prince Sin anouk's declaration that the Khme: Rouge will be the government and that he was retiring from politics.
This great impetus to struggles in Asia shows that imperialism is not invincible, and that the CIA and other imperialist agencies can be swept aside by the strength of the armed workers and peasants revolution. The only barrier is the reformist and Stalinist leaderships which see only the "strength" of imperialism and seek simply "peaceful coexistence"
These victories are therefor blow to the Moscow and Pekig bureaucracies, since the political movement of the masses spelis the end of their uneasy balance betwe imperialism and the nationalised propert relations of these deforme workers states.
The WSL salutes the proud achievement of the Cambodian and Vietnamese liberation forces. We further demand that the Labour government, which owes its position to the organised workers movement, immediately withdra recognition from the US puppet administrations in Phnom Penh and Saigon, and instead give recognition to the Khmer Rouge, and the NIP Provisional Revolutionary Government in
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