movement for over 20 months.
Tariq Ali, the chairperson, expressed Teeing or a number of his listeners when he regretted that the occasion of such a large meeting and such a representative platform or let organisations snould be the frame-up campaign of a small ane ciscreated secu Tim Wolforth, ex-national secretary of nedys American Workers League, pointed out the record of the SWP. which through its law suit against the FBi and CiA had demon strated its real concern for the secunty or me worners hove ment against spies and infiltrators. so it nad struck a blow for the whole working class internationally.
Wolforth, now national secretary of SWP, said that speaking tnis meeting in detence of the SWP was proudest momy life'. concern of the meeting not to rebut Healy's charges - the record of the militants under attack in the service of the working class was proof but to investigate the reasons for the political madness of Healy and his organisation.
Following this point
Pierre Lambert (representing the Organising Committee for Fourth International) showed TRal healys method directly related to that Stalin. Like Stalin. said LamHealy drew immediate DeRe oreanisatonal from political differences.
Loud and prolonged plause greeted the appearance aeorge speakers rostrum. Novack recounted his near-on 50 vears experience of fighting against Hame-ups, Startle WILl campaign to defend Mooney, to the Dewey Commission which cleared Trotsky of the crimes of which he was accused by Stalin, and so to LAST WEEK saw a tremendous blow struck against a campaign of vilification and slander that has been plaguing the Trotskyist A meeting attended by 1,150 people heard an international platform of speakers firmly refute the campaign by the Workers Revolutionary Party of Gerry Healy to smear Joe Hansen and George Novack, leading members of he Socialist Workers Party of the USA, as 'accomplices of the the campaign against the FBI today.
He told the audience that he never expected to be the victim of a frame-up by another organisation which itself Trotskyist. So cupied had Healy become with the Stalinist method of frame up that he had echoed Hall in the claim exposure or ro acents In ne SWP through their suit showed that the SWP 'was the mair staging post for the FBl' in the States.
The clear rebuttals Healy's campaign were muddied a little by the contribution of Michel Pablo of the Internatonal Revolutionary to Tendency. While firmly rejecting Healy's slanders and calling for the soonest possible real end to them (implicitly rejectwas ing tne position or ine ledde of the Belgian section of his tendency, a time had associated himself with Healy's campaign)
Pablo called for an international Commission with membership acceptable to sites in orcerto octene ne up, Wds La 0Tom called preocMarxist who for truth of the matter.
both While done from the best of motives, this call could play into the hands of Healy, because of his induce independent figures of any stature movement to serve on the fake "International Enquiry of which he has already prejudged has now resorted to the call the United Secretariat and his own nematona commutee to hear the Hansen and Novack and the charges against Concluding speakers and representing the Secretariat Fourth International, Mandel cut Healy right down to size. He said that he would feel sorry had stooped to weren that "little nediy. inability to workers all who were COMMISSIOn O SIne result, charges against only now himself of Clapham High Street. AL Ine the list of OT Ernest to join tnose for comrades who such depths not for the antics of Ali had rascal' Gerry Taking advantage of Healy's rebuttal presence (despite the fact that present were 'accomplices of the GPU' according to News Line), Mandel showed that, like Stalin, Healy reduced the problem of politics to spy-hunting. The Trot- importance skyist movement had survived the purges of Stalin and the concentration camps of Hitler to be confronted 'tin-pot dictator' of Don Was Mandel's speech, Healy rose to speak accompanied by the yelling of fists and sang. WRP members he had enticed Waverine the crimes of the GPU'. At the ing. beginning of the rally, which Healy had missed in favour of making a stage entrance, Tarig explained that purpose of the rally was demonstration of solidarity in of Healy's charges, not a debate on their merits, THeO and in this context he moved a vote to the meeting that no further discussion be taken. it was carried overwhelmingly Mandel had pointed out the of extending the arm of the Fourth internationa militants of the WRP should they reject Healy's foul methods. The full force of this underlined pathos as the audience rose to sing the 'Internationale' WRP members raised their Then a glare Healy sent their fists their voices falteraround him WRP members fell silent. Only in the balcony, immune from the baleful glare of the 'wizard of Clapham High Street', did they continue to sing the anthem o working class solidarity which so long de EDUCATION FOR SOCIALISTS HEALY'S BIG LIE The Slander Campaign Against Joseph Hanser Wilkinson, Stafford Cripps, George Strauss, Harold