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RIGHT WING ORGANISE IN LABOUR PARTY

Red Weekly No. 187, 17 February 1977 · p. 12 of the scan · 369 words

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page 12 of the scan

A NATIONAL MEETING of the Lavour rarly suent wine nas Dee! organised.

This Friday, 'active and loyal Labour members' will discuss what Tan Wrigglesworth, the meeting's convenor and secretary of BISHL-WHIS Manifesto group Labour described as "shamboliestate of the party".

By which he means:

*The failure of the NEC to rally support for the Government; the lack or a sensible voice in some constituencies; and the evidence of Subscribe NAME..

infiltration by elements alien to the democraucsocaustraduon.

Certainly lan Wrigglesworth and his fellow right-wing MPs cannot be accused of support for the Government' and its Tory policies. Indeed, it is perhaps to show gratitude for such suppor that a member of the Government, Iransport Minister Rodgers, has agreed to chair the rightwing meeting.

Michael Foot, on the other hand, is not amused by the prospect of the right so publicly organising.

of the architects of the Social Red Weeky SUBSCRIPTION RATES DUMCS C E7 per year £3.50 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per vear surface mai £12 per year airmail Indon N1 Contract, and a key figure in the decision to establish a witch-hunting CHOLEY present the 'unity of the party as "entryism", Foot 'failure' to rally being threatened by the left.

Last week he insisted that there was a whole range of matters on which beneve aereement can De William reached between all sections of the party This statement came just as the Home Policy Labour's National Executive en One dorsed the document Agenda for Agreement', which "unity' in the party spoke of the neec for the Cabinet and the NECto sink their differences'.

All these calls for unity omit to mention on what policies the unity should be based, but the most recent example of the NEC differences with the Labour right was the decision to establish the enquiry into 'entryism' Now, having got that through Michae root is understancaDy upset at those who support his Government's policies doing openly and publicly what he is merrily However, such embarrassments, while uncomfortable. will not stor the right organising, being allowed to organise, and une lent orgamsing and being witch-hunted forit.

The difference is that the right are organising to support the Labour overnments ponces. whic Enc

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