WRP sue the the BBC?

Scan page 6

official handout. At the same the wretched Newsline hacks wrote articles justitying the shooting of members of the Communist Party of Iraq by Hussein's regime.

Relations with Iraq seem cooler now: but sycophancy towards Col. Gadaffi and his 'green revolution' oozes all over the pages of Newsline.

In the past the WRP has - wrongly - called him a fascist.

Regular readers_of SO will know that while we are being sued for libei by the WRP, they have surprisingly ignored our repeated statements that they are widely believed to receive Arab government money.

Most at risk young are children, and because thyroid cancer typically Last Sunday's BBC Money Programme carried an investigation of the financial links between Libya and the WRP. It established a circumstantial case based on the fact that the tiny WRP has a vast printing press, and a daily more lavishly printed than any Fleet Street paper with a tiny circulation (they said 10,000, probably it is a great deal less). ¡ Print works The programme showed shots of the Astmoor Litho printing works at Runcorn. The WRP would not answer the door to them. SinisterAND again from Sellafield (Windscale].

Last week a former employee, John Taylor, was appealing against dismissal, claiming that he had been forced into resigning after he had alleged that: •The plant's laundry was inefficient and failed to completely remove radioactivity from overalls. •That a report he wrote on this was not acted on. •That automatic alarms were adjusted so as not to go off too often.

laylor says that staff 'suffer a significant radiological exposure which could easily remain completely undetected.' . This is because the detectors check the overall level of contamination, though contamination often 'highly localised and correspondingly intense' Do YOU believe THAT?! looking closed-circuit TV cameras filmed the fumers. The usual paraphernalia of the WRP's paranoid Ayatollah Healy, it will have inpressed the viewers that the left are very odd indeed.

The programme was both shallow and underresearched. It talked of the revolutionary left in general as possible linked to Gadaffi by chains of gold. It talked about the left and ethnic press, but said nothing about the ethnic press.

The programme suggested that as much as £1½ million may have been channelled to the WRP by the Libyan government by way of overpayment for 'commercial work'. It did not investigate the financial side of WRP films like "The Palestinian' , which are popular in Arab countries.

It left a great many avenues unexplored. But it did plainly allege that the WRP gets money from Gadaffi. Will the WRP sue the BBC? Such a libel case would force the WRP to 'open its books' to their opponents' solicitors.

There is still a need for a thorough investigation into the links of the WRP with Arab governments - a labour movement investigation.

Sean Matgamna