Furore about nothing
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-02-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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SH AS IF there aren't enough problems already for Labour candidate Peter Tatchell in the Bermondsey by election, the Labour leadership managed to add another one this week.
Fired by their obsession with the Militant tendency they ordered the pulping of - 25,000 leaflets because they had been printed by Cambridge Heath Press, which prints the Militant newspaper.
Peter Tatchell's press conference to launch the Labour campaign was postponed and a "crisis meeting" was held between national officials and the local Party.
Having made a huge issue out of nothing, Labour leaders then blamed the press for blowing the dispute up out of all proportion. But it was the national officials who handed the press the opportunity to witch-hunt latchell even before the Labour campaign had been launched.
Not only has Bermondsey Labour Party used Cambridge Heath Press for its local material over a number of years, but the Labour Party itself has on occasion haa material printea there until last year's conference decision to establish a register.