We are pleased to print below an interview given to Red Weekly in a personal capacity by John Ciark, a member of ing our actions. I think we have to do this because we are not just responsible to ourselves and to oner Labour Party members, but to the community as a whole.
Are you in favour of the removal of the Wilson leadership of the Labour Party?
I can't see a group which has a sufficiently coherent set of policies and a sufficiently broad based place in the labour movement which coule rewace wison. tinK the Wilson clique, if you like, have built up a very strong position within the whole labour movement, and it is only by campaigning continuously that we can prevent anotner enque coming to power. There would be no point at all in replacing the Wilson clique with another clique, even if initially it supported the policies which we support. What do you think lies behind the witch-hunt of the Militant group which started in the Observer last Sunday?
Scare tactics. I don't see that it has any really valid part to play in this - I've never heard of the RSL in something like ten years of involvement in the lab our movement, and I've been involved with various left-wing groups during that time. If it exists, and if the Militant group is supposedly infiltrating the party. they don't seem any different from other members of the party who were aireday there in tne virst place Are you in favour of the removal of bans and proscriptons from the Labour Party, and are you in favour of
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