SCORES HEALY IN ERNEST TATE CASE
[The following item, under the title, "Healy Goes to: Court," appeared in the January issue of the Irish Militant.]
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Different sections of the British working class movement adopt different attitudes to the repressive arms of the capitalist state machine. One organisation which evinced outright hostility at the whole legal apparatus and contempt for the "collaborators" was the Socialist Labour League, led by Gerry Healy. Their publications are replete with fulminations against any "socialist" who dares have truck with any capitalist institution. ,
Now Peace News and Socialist Leader recently published a letter from Ernie Tate, manager of the Marxist Pioneer Bookshop, alleging that S.L.L. members had, at Healy's instigation, beaten him up. What was Gerry scourge-of-—the-fake-lefts Healy's reaction? He went whining to his lawyer and dispatched writs in all directions.