YOUNG CANADIAN SOCIALISTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH ERNEST TATE
{The following is the text of a letter sent to Ernest Tate, who was attacked by a gang at the entrance of a meeting of the Socialist Labour League November 17 and beaten for attempting to sell Trotskyist literature to those going inside. The Healy referred to in the letter is the general secretary of the SLL.]
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Toronto, Ontario
November 22, 1966 Dear Ernie:
On behalf of the Editorial Board of Young Socialist Forum, we extend our firm support in the face of the attack made upon you.
There can be no greater testimony to the accuracy and strength of the ideas of
revolutionary Marxism which you are working to spread in Britain than the hysterical opposition they arouse among our opponents. Unable to deal politically with our analy-~ sis, our program, they resort to physical violence of the vilest kind.
It is significant that Healy's band of sectarian Stalinophobes are found resorting to the very tactics the Stalinists used against our movement in the thirties.
We know that on your recovery you will continue the struggle for Trotskyism in Britain, and that this struggle will be victorious. The gangster tactics of the Healyites will in the end contribute to their downfall.
For International Socialism,
Yours fraternally,
John Riddell, Editor
Ian Angus, Managing Editor
YOUNG SOCIALIST FORUM