Original sentence: Kinnock subsequently suspended the operation of Liverpool District Labour Party and appointed Peter Kilfoyle as an organiser with a specific remit to remove Militant supporters from the Labour Party.Many of those around Kinnock had successfully resisted the Militant/RSL attempt to take over the National Organisation of Labour Students in the 1970s and were impervious to Militant's claims to be nothing more than a newspaper or the argument that an attack on Militant was an attempt to suppress dissent - the claim of a witch hunt
Edited sentence: Kinnock subsequently suspended the operation of Liverpool District Labour Party and appointed Peter Kilfoyle as an organiser with a specific remit to persecute Militant supporters.Many of those around Kinnock had successfully resisted the Militant/RSL attempt to take over the National Organisation of Labour Students in the 1970s and were impervious to Militant's claims to be nothing more than a newspaper or the argument that an attack on Militant was an attempt to suppress dissent - the claim of a witchhunt