Freedom and Socialism

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Protests are not enough | We referred in our issue last week to the disgraceful and cowardly beating up of Ernie Tate outside a meeting organised by the Socialist Labour League. Ernie's case has been taken up by Peace News, Socialist Leader, and even the international paper The Militant. It is also the subject of a letter from a reader on page 3 of this issue. That the assault should have provoked so swift and widespread a protest is encouraging to all who value the good name of Socialism. The labour movement in this country operates under many labels, but we know of no label, be it Socialism, Trotskyism, Marxism, or what you will, that has anything in common with such behaviour. No individual, no organisation, which may be found to be responsible for this sort of violence and physical intimidation, is worthy of any label other than that of Thuggery. THE WEFK, and we are sure, all its readers, will actively support and protect the right of all comrades, whatever their views, to sell literature without hindrance. We have no intentinn , ourselves, of being intimidated and we shall speak up, and stand up, for equal rights for others on the left.