The Nottingham Purge is now quite clearly more than a local storm.The Aldermen of Nottingham would never have dared to strike at the City Party without powerful backing from Transport House.Now Labour's NEC have nodded through the brutal recommendations of Sara'Barker's tribunal,without laying a single charge or judgement before their victims. This can only mean that the views which Ken Coates and his friends were expressing, of an intransigent oppsition to George Brown's Trade Union Castration Bill, and soligarity with the people of Vietnam, have alarmed the Party leaders.This purge must arouse vigorous and determined protest. At the same time,Tesolutions on the vital issues involved must be flooded through to the Brighton Conference agenda, This battle is not over, It is hardly yet begun]
The WeekThe Week Vol. 5, No. 22, 2 June 1966
The Nottingham Purges
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