LETTER FROM SWP TO PIERRE LAMBERT
November 21, 1966 —
Pierre Lambert Informations Ouvriéres 39, rue du Faubourg du Temple Paris 10, France Dear Comrade Lambert,
We are enclosing copies of various communications concerning a matter that holds the gravest implications for the organization you head, as you will no doubt quickly see.
The principal one is a letter from the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party to the National Committee of the Socialist Labour League. It concerns the serious beating inflicted on Ernest Tate by six assailants who, from all the evidence, were acting under the direct personal supervision of Thomas Gerard Healy, the general secretary of the Socialist Labour League.
Since you are in complete political agreement with Healy, judging from the dec-
larations of your group as well as your joining Healy in recently sponsoring an international conference to advance your joint aims, it is. clear that your political reputation has been compromised by the assault perpetrated on Comrade Tate. .
We expect that you will join us in demanding that the Socialist Labour League immediately place Healy on trial, publicly condemn the hoodlum tactics he sponsored, expel all those members of the Socialist Labour League involved in the attack, and issue assurances that the Socialist Labour League has undertaken measures to prevent any repetition of such methods smacking of Stalinism at its worst period.
We call your attention in particular to the statement in the August 20 issue of The Newsletter in which the Political Committee of the Socialist Labour League denounced the pamphlet, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International, and gave the following notice: "We shall not hesitate to deal appropriately with the handful of United Secretariat agents who hawk it around the cynical fake-left in England.
In view of your own long record of vigorously advocating the practice of democracy in workers organizations, we naturally count on your issuing a public statement at once making your own stand in this matter crystal clear.
Fraternally,
Farrell Dobbs, National Secretary.
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