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Solid, right from the Nursing Officer to the porters and domestics.

Also the two doctors have expressed their support and local GPs have written to the AHA saying how disgusted they are with the decision.

Our local Tory MP has supported us and we have written to Margaret Thatcher to see if shell support us, because we get a lot of patients from her constituency:

There is an endowment that has been left to St. Columba's, which should by now have been NOW OUT! The WSL discussion document adopted for submission to the USFI XIth World Congress. Price 20p plus 10p p&ep from WSL. 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. Dear Comrade, Your columnist in Press Gang last week (Socialist Press 139) gave an accurate and use. ful account of the treatment of royalty in the capitalist media over the recent period.

The enormous amounts of money lavished on Elizabeth Windsor by the most backward, reactionary and vicious rulers on earth is indication enough of where the real loyalties of the institution of monarchy lay.

Sultan Qabus of Oman duly expressed his thanks to har for the support her army gave in the murderous war against the Dhofari libaration movement for well over ten years.

The ramarks of Charles Windsor, ludicrously vague but interpreted by some as baing 'against management", were of some importance also.

They indicated once again the way the institution of monarchy is used by the ruling class, kept in reserve as a cloak to its most devious and repressivą designs.

To simply ridicule the Elizabeth Windsor monarchy, complain about its wealth and so forth, would be to miss this ossential point.

Long ago Trotsky pointed out that "Royalty is weak as long as the bourgeois parliament is the instrument of bourgeois rule and as long as the bourgeoisie has no need of extraparliamentary methods. But the bourgeoisie can if necessary use royalty as a focus of all extraparliamentary i.o. real forces directed against the working class"'. . (Writings on Britain, pp. 40-41).

A ruling class which has been terrified, by the strength of the lorry drivers, the hospital workers and other groups in action, with Parliament and its institutions too weak to inflict a decisive defeat on the working class, knows that it may nood more than just Callaghan and the trade union traitors. Even Thatcher may not be able to take on the working class any more than Heath could.

The speech of Charles with its 'populist' tone was thus in no way accidental, but reflected desperation of the bourgeoisie and an insurance policy for what they may noad to do in the next period.

Yours fraternally London Horse (right) with Princess Anne

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erenc If an election is fought with Callaghan in the leadership standing on the government's squalid record, the result will inevitably pose major problems for the working class.

On the one hand a Tory victory brought about by the wholesale demoralisation of former Labour voters, would unleash a massive: wave of Thatcher-style anti-union LABOB