asks Charles ven Gelderen Is Sarah Barker taking her team of bloodhounds down to Pembroke? If not, why not? No one can dispute that. the Member of Parliarent for Pembroke, Desrrond Donnelly, has arraigned hirself openly arainst everything the Labour Party stands for. He is arainst nationalisation; enthusiastic about prescription charges; supports Ian Smith in Rhodesia; wants Britain tc continue her imperialist role east of Suez. % every opportunity he attacks the Labour Gcvernment and Harold Wilson, True, he has resigned the Labour whip. This puts him outside the Parliamentary Labour Party - perhaps the one pain from the ress in which Wilson's policy has landed the Party. But he is still a member of the Labour Party. What is more, he claims that his Constituency Party supports him. We know that this is not true of the Dockers of Pembroke, who have passed a resolution not to re-adopt him as perlianentary candidate and may well not be true of the rest of the Constituency Party. But shouldn't Sarah Barker be on her way to Pembroke to find out? For far less than this, indeed, for defendinr the traditicnal socialist position, Ken Coates of Nottingham was expelled from the Party. Sarah spent weeks investigating the Nottingnem Labour parties, smelling out disaffection, Similarly, some members of North Harrersmith and Barons Court Labour Parties were subjected to hours of erilling hecause they dared to demonstrate against the Government's pro-American Vietnam poliey in front of the premises of the Fulham Labour Party whose MP, Michael Stewart, was at that time Foreign Secretary. Donnelly - and there are others - has,over a lonr period now, put forward a consistently Tory policy and no action has been taken by the witchhun‘ers of Transport House. Now he is psoinr to address the extreme rightist Monday Club, surely a 'banned orgmisation' if ever there was one. We have no objection to various points of view being put inside the Labour Party, but what is sauce for the right-wing goose must also he sauce for the left-wing gander. The Labour Party was from the start a compromise between the varied sections of the Labour Movement. Socialis jcined it and continued to work in it because they wished to associate themselves with the main stream of the British working class, They hoped, in time, to win the movement to a socialist policy. They are prepared to meet the Donnelly's on ¢qual. terms and to put forward socialist sclutions for the troubles which afflict Britain. This is their right and their duty. They will not be Silenced? by a discipline which applies only to the Left, while the Right-wing reactionaries go scot free.
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