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LABOUR Against the Witchhunt published an advertisement in the March 4 issue of Tribune, calling on the right wing of Labour's NEC to halt all disciplinary measures against Party members and CLPs and pledging not to recognise or comply with any disciplinary action taken by the NEC.

The advert was signed by 44 CLPs and over a hundred wards, Labour Groups and individual members.

The advert will reappear on Thursday 31 March to coincide with the LPYS Annual Conference. CLPs; trade union and Labour Party branches can add their name to the advert by sending £3 per entry and the name of the organisation to Labour Against the WitchHunt, 11 Wilderton Road, London N16, to arrive by Thursday March 24.

NATIONAL COUNCIL London N16. The new 'Socialists for a Labour Victory' campaign will differ from the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory in the 1979 general election. It has a more limited political basis. But by basing itself on official Labour Party policy it can organise an immensely greater part of the left wing of the workers' movement and take it through an important experience of rank and file political mobilisation and struggle.

Socialist Organiser will

produce an election broadsheet on our own full politics as well as building 'Socialists for a Labour Victory'. . The potential and scope of the new campaign is as yet not decided. Much will depend on how disappointing to Labour activists the official manifesto is. And the LCC and the Tribune newspaper, together with the Tribune group of MPs, are launching their own series of election rallies. Much will depend on linking up the two left general election initiatives.

The SLV campaign will be along the general lines suggested in last week's Socialist Organiser. The political platform will include the. demand for Britain to withdraw from the Common Market. Many (though by no means all) supporters of Socialist Organiser disagree with this policy - arguing that it cuts across Europe-wide working class unity and fight for a Socialist United States of Europe.

But we are in a smallish minority on the Left (though less isolated than we used to be). Withdrawal from the EEC is official Labour Party policy: that it should be made Labour government policy is a matter of democracy. Participating in the campaign of the Left, Socialist Organiser. supporters who think this an important issue will have the chance to argue our position in the paper, and perhaps have fruitful dialogue with those who disagree with us.

Campaign material will appear in about two or three weeks. But the campaign is launched and already in existence.

Some Constituency Labour Parties are already campaigning for the general