THIS WEDNESDAY the Labour Party national executive committee will have placed before it a resolution Liverpool MP Eric Heffer.
Supported by fellow NEC members Dennis Tony Bena, Joan Maynard, Tony Jo Richardson, the resolution demands the party call a the escalating liall witch-hunt. It calls on the NEC 'get OI the witch-hunting atmosphere beginning to develop in the ano lo concentae on defeating Thatcher and her government at the next election'. Labour must not indulge, it says, in tactics 'witch-hunts, thoughtcontrol guilt-byassociation'.
The resoldon DomEs out that there are many some of which intluenced by socialist journals and newspapers. This 'not phenomenon in the party' but has 'existed since its District Labour Parts formation'.
party must not return the days 'proscribed lists tolerance', but should accept diversification of 'groups, strands of opinion' within le parly. Joullars newspapers of one kind or with widely differing views, are bound to exist, it says. 'This diversification be that the is healthy, dynamic, socialist force ave co moDuse support wide sections of the people.
It concludes that the main task of Labour's national leadership today is: *to work for the election of a Labour government the next general election.
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