When the WRP sued Socialist Organiser

Healy
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

In the early 1980s, Gerry Healy's WRP - then an organisation of considerable assets, including a weekly paper, Labour Herald, sponsored by well-known Labour left figures, but edited day-to-day by a WRP member - sued Socialist Organiser (forerunner of Solidarity) for libel, and ran a big campaign in the labour movement against Socialist Organiser. These articles tell the story.