Anti-Fascism SOME 127 Labour activists across all four Coventry constituencies have been suspended in the biggest purge of individual leftwingers in the party yet.
charges centre on alleged sup pont for independent socialist candidates in the April general election, when former Labour MPs Dave Nellist and John Hughes stood against official Labour candidates in the city after being expelled and deselecied respectre Lacal activists claim some of those accused played no part In either campaign, while others who openly worked for Nellist and Hughes are not included. In reality, it is every rightwinger's grudge list, going back over a Pergamon strike called off decade, said NUT activiet Will Reese, who is named despilo hia prior resignation from the party.
Those suspended include well over hall of regular ward meeling altenders, and up to 90 per cent of activists, he added; "1 essentially amounts to the destruction of the Labour Party In Coventry, Also on the list Nellist s partner Jane, ex-councillor George Ready (who was in hospital for heart surgery throughout the campeign) and former West Midlands County Councillor Dave Spencer.
One resull of the witch-hunt has been the formation of a Coventry Socialist Allance, open to people both inside and outside the Labour Party. The new group will hold a one dey conference on September 26.