Support for Ken Douglas

After this debate the SUP circulated a rumour that the Ethiopia debate had been staged by right wingers in order to discredit K. Douglas and topple him from the FoL executive.

The fact that Douglas was returned to the executive as the third highest polling candidate (with 523 votes out of 535 cast) shows that the rumour was nonsense. The truth of the matter is that almost all the right voted for Douglas having learned since the last conference that he was certainly no genuine militant on the national executive.

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