your article on National association. for Free dom, the hypocrisy of their claim concerned to has just been of a £500 donation to NAFF in th company accounts of Consolidated Goldfields British-owned South African gold-mining company was able to boast not sc one a0o mat ne waces i paid to African workers hadn't risen real terms since the First World War [for Worlon Consolidated oldields Services]. Its donation can only be seen as a kind of award to NAFF for services defendin Investment in apartheid.
MAMIN LORCONI.
fares. Earls North sianderous of Healy Calecory.
I-intormed -acGers system When respond ticke [being paid this time queues will cause MARTIN to speak IVOC transoon be allowed to speak, Shoul •But what Film-Makers reply to tne criticisms made London Like the organisers of and the speakers at the London Friday vanuary I deplore • camoaion currentiv beind Workers meeting both to listen its aims: vvorkers Democracy, Againsi rrame-ups and slan However, I think that it was a serious mistake for reply to speeches made against him hours of criticism Healy should have been allowed to ассо danc WILl ments of workers deinocracy. After all, like it or not, the WRP still represents a current of thought in the workers movement, albeit a sectarian one of declinrunnermore ine coverace or me meeune in ned Weekly (20 January) was rather less than adequate on accompanied by expect to read in the bourgeois press. but not in Red Weekly.
When it became clear that Healy was not going to , it is true that a large number of people (surely not all of them WRP members) began Tariq Chan person discussion nao seen rerused. in wnar orner way wert they supposed to communicate their views to him?)
inconsistency WINCES ver denvine neav me opportunity or an Humedide In his opening remarks, Tarig Ali explained that the Novack and not for the purposes of discussion, and unis was arer usea as a reason for not arrowing conducted responses to neary s vicious meeting was very regrettably marred by the Had not practise one or He - DANNT WILAIN CardI to tre only cements Healy (Since ourineteaners TOYCHORE nose involved. instero News.une she orel campaign OUT dIso suring derences of tne principies or workers demo, and as such exposed the ill-founded nature of things which it preached.
• In no sense can the refusal to allow Gerry Healy to socan be construce as a voration or worKers cenoc racy neav anons war naveor montas seen out freely purveying their slanderous rubbish through the and glossy publications. In all acrociat nave been inose perpetrated oy neary s natcher men substituting slander for politics and denying oppoorganised with the specific purpose of redressing the balance in some small wav. bv allowing the victims and opponents ol Healy's Stalinist methods to express their views.
within and by selling their literature and distriHealy's attempt to speak was clearly not a serious attempt to debate the issues. If he had really wanted beforehand and proposed a change in format of the meenne wricn coura nave been orscusseo win ar 'accomplices of the GPU Faced with dramatic stunt, the chairman had no alternative but to pursue the course
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breadth of the newspaper articles,
them all as and Healy's last minute attempt at a