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Hot reception for Reagan

Class Fighter no. 4, April 1982 · scan p. 8 · Peter Hain · about 562 words

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FIGH AND RALLY 7.15 at County Hall, Waterloo. Send us a donation. Support us want a subscription to Class Fighter, and enclose £3 for would like more information on the National Left-Wing Youth Movement. •I would like a National Left-Wing Youth Movement speaker for my LPYS, YCND O other meeting. I enclose details. 11 want to become a Class Fighter supporter and enclose £5 (waged), or £1 (unwaged) Return to NLWYM, BM Box 5277, London WC1 3XX.

Published hy NLWYM BM BOX 5277, London WC 1 3XX. Printed by East End Offset (TU). A 'hot reception" is planned for President Reagan when he visits Britain in early June.

The Reagan Reception Committee is organising a picket on Monday June 7, and a lobby of Reagan's speech to Parliament the following day.

Sponsored by about 40 Labour MPs - including Tony Benn, Neil Kinnock, Michael Meacher and Ernie Roberts, and with broad labour movement support, the Reagan Reception Committee is an ad hoc group formed specifically to mobilise for the days around Reagan's visit.

Under an appeal headed "We Don't Want Reagan's Bombs. We Want Jobs" , the committee says:

"President Reagan and his advisors condemn the brutal suppression of trade union rights in Poland and yet, with blatant hypocrisy, they increase their financial support to the dictatorial regime in E! Salvador, which daily sanctions murder and torture.

President Reagan an Reception Committee.

coming to Britain because he knows he can find full support for his. policies from the Tories, who themselves are prepared to spend £10 billion to buy the American Trident : missile system.

We believe that the colossal sum which is being spent on arms should be spent on more hospitals, schools, better housing and bringing down the level of unemployment.

We don't want bombs. We want jobs. We want at twice the rate is making things worse - closina RIGHT yuwn nurseries, al. making public transport impossibly expensive, sacking women from public services, and now even preventing WOR mothers from claimpropaganda saying that women are good only for caust.

Further details of the wives, and as objects of committee's activities and mockery. sex exploitation, violence' can be obtained from PO Box 51, London SW10. But women refuse to be victunions, in politics, in the anti-war movement, in the WOMEN'S CND demonstration, LIBERATION MOVEMENT, London June 6. in campaigns against cuts and Picket Heathrow, Wind- job losses, and against violence sor Castle and the US and degradation.

Embassy on June 7 (the day Reagan arrives). ON JUNE 5th we will be on Lobby of Parliament and the march, fighting for all aspects of our right to work anti-Reagan festival at - for our right to childcare Central Hall, Westminster and social services, our right ¡June 8. to independence, and above all, to show that we are a power to be reckoned with, MARCH WITH US!

HOW YOU B-movie CAN HELP * Come to the Action Committee meetings - there is a meeting every Monday evening at Publicise the march in your local press, at work, butcher-| at college, at school, among your friends.

* Leaflets from: Action Cttee for a Woman's Right to Work, 181 Richmond Road, London E8.

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