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CONFERENCE Saturday May 19 2pm to 11pm For more details write to SYL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NWS IHR. Rupert St., London N19 Hill.

Blair Peach ( died under a policem an's truncheon. But so fa ir as the press went that was all right.

The Daily Mail descr ibed him as a 'Left wing ste ereotype' . The Sun introdi uced him as "a part time M laori from New Zealand who taught in an East End special school."

The Daily Express gave over its centre spread to › the events at Southall and I Blair Peach's death.

Clubbed to An interview with his brother was generally favourable and prominent space was given to the allegation that he was clubbed to death by the But half the page was given over an article by the rabid George Gale The Red Fascists are the ones who scare me' which set the scene for the last frenzied week of the election.

Gale is noted

originality:

"There are no good, civilised,. decent, intelligent, politically or intellectually respectable answers to these questions which every lawabiding citizen must ask as he sees, hears and reads the disgusting news from Southall."

Gale linked the antifascists at Southall to anti-imperialists arguing for troops out of Ireland at Callaghan's election meetings.

And with one accord the press and the Tory party threw their campaign where it always looked likely to go -law and order, and the restoration of hangingthough not, of course, for the police murderer of antifascist Blair Peach.

Socialist Press does not often feature in reviews of the press in the Daily Mail thank goodness, ed.!. But last week an article on the leader page by ex-Labour turncoat Paul Johnson showed a montage of a paper seller and a stand covered in left papers.

The headline on Socialist Press is Vote Labour-Sack Callaghan'.

The headline on Johnson's article is The extremist press gets right behind Jim'.

Johnson, as former editor of the New Statesman, used to be able to read -even if he was unable to draw correct conclusions.

Joining the Tories is obviously bad for the eyesight.

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As we go to press, the General Election campaign is workers for Labour's lukewarm collaborationist platitudes. grinding to a close. Elections are of course supposed to This has made coverage of the election a difficult issueprovide an opportunity for parties to display their nothing of much novelty has been said by any of the But this Election more than almost any other has served Instead the same old worn record of class collaboration, to illustrate the complete absence of any socialist "the national interest" and the values of the bourgeois perspective whatever from the Labour leaders. family has been tirelessly played proving once again the As the campaign progressed it became increasingly clear necessity in voting Labour to fight also for a complete that if Thatcher is indeed kept out of Number 10, then it break from the reformist politics of the Labour Party and will be through mass revulsion and hostility to the Tories' for the building of a revolutionary leadership in the planned attacks rather than any mass enthusiasm among workers' movement. SS,