UTOM march hits at racism

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Nearly 300 people joined leaflet from the organisers on Republican Socialist Party the "march against state wards the connection was brutally harassed since the the march and at the rally after- whose membership have been racism." between Hyde Park repeatedly made between the Neave I bombing, described the and Kilburn organised by repressive nature of the Preven- victimisation of Jimmy Scanlon, East London UTOM last tion of Terrorism Act, the an Irish building worker who Immigration Act and the 'Sus' had come to work in Britain to Saturday. law. escape blacklisting in his native But the officials were not arrested until they had flown the 750 miles back to Perth, as and drunk' Another official claimed that if the arrests had been made in Karratha, 'there would have been a revoluțion by the workers'.

So far, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (equivalent to the TUC in Britain) has called a 24-hour national protest some cases indefinite action.

The arrested unionists are refusing to pay any fines that may be imposed. But Sir Charles Court (state premier) is refusing to 'reexamine' the law, and remains determined to press ahead with this attack.

The action of the Court state government is only the latest move in the general offensive by other bourgeois state governments, led by Fraser's reactionary federal government in Canberra, to confront the organised strength and militancy of the Australian working class and its trade unions.

Although there was no Saturday's UTOM demonstration But a speaker from the Irish Co. Clare.

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Cowley Community Cowley, Oxford akes * Plants * Game Bargains * Fortune teller * Refreshments Organised by the Oxford Area Workers Socialist League Marty LINGUE Now framed under the PTA, Scanlon is still in Brixton jail awaiting deportation without trail.

A speaker from the Workers Socialist League emphasised the centrality of the demand for troops out now but pointed out that the key to winning this demand was a continual turn into the organised labour movement to secure working class action to force withdrawal of the imperialist troops.

Kick out Callaghan

This does not mean trying to change the Tories' spots but fighting in the Labour Party to kick out the Callaghan and Mason leadership which had been responsible for the same imperialist policies under the last Labour government and which now opposes action to remove the Tories. ngham declare that they had 'no empty declare that they had property available'.

So on June 2 a group of women occupied a house in Edgbaston owned by the Education Department which had been standing empty for some months.

In the absence of holidaying Tories, the Council passed motion to reverse an eviction order on the house and to find another refuge for the women.

Pledged support

But electricity and water have been cut off and the Tories are threatening to reverse the decision when they return.

: The women themselves intend to continue the occupation until a suitable house is capitalist state machine will seek to extend and strengthen such police detachments as a desperate measure to smash picket lines and prevent mass mobilisations of workers and youth in street protests.

Licensed thugs In supporting the call for the disbanding of the SPG, TAG and similar squads, socialists must go further, and demand the disbanding of the entire police force which, as the licensed thugs of the capitalist state, are fundamentally opposed to the interests of the working class.

Trade unions and workers political organisations must at once convene a full-scale workers' inquiry into Peach's murder, and take up the fight within the Labour Party for the removal of those right wing leaders who while in government supervised the emergence of the SPG and cold-bloodedly used these killers against mass pickets at Grunwick and elsewhere. charitable trusts have pledged their support.

Responsibility

It is vital that the maximum support from the labour movement is gathered and that gas, electricity and water workers are persuaded to reconnect and maintain services.

The Tories see any escape for women from violence as a threat to the sanctity of the family.

The labour movement must recognise its responsibility to defend women who are forced out of their homes for their own and their children's safety.

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