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explaining the dangers of "particip (ation", and thing British Leyland workers to mobilise against the Ryder committees.

The main forces on the BLMC Combine Committee, right wing and Communist Party alike, are fully behind patticipation and are involved up to their necks in the ad hoc organising committee We are the only movement whis is carrying out such a campaign, and it is at Cowley where we are influential in the trade union movement, that the only fight aking place against Ryder.

BIRMINGHAM "Fight Ryder, defend jobs" Thursday 16th October, 7.4:

Labour Club, Bristol Street, Birmingham.

COVENTRY vo Participation in Management"

ssday October 7th, 8.00 pm Old Dyers Arms, Butts, Near Coventry Technical College:

ursday 2nd October, 8.00 Bear Hotel, Bearwood Road, Warley.

Policy to Fight sday 2nd Octo arendon Press I WARLEY Policy to Fight Unemployment"

Unemployment" ser, 8.00 pm istitute, The trial has opened at the Old Bailey of 14 pacificists. supporters of the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign (BWNIC), who are charged with conspiracy to contravene the Incitement to Disaffection Act of 1934.

Their "crime" was to distribute a leaflet, entitled Some Information for Discontented Soldiers to members of the armed forces. The method of attack by the state -the use of a catch-all "conspiracy" charge which virtually absolves the prosecution from bringing hard evidence. (as in the conviction of the Shrewsbury pickets) - is becomfund The campaigns begun by the WSL on unemployment and against the implementation of the Ryder report in BLMC are a new development for our movement. It is not an accident that no other group on the left is campaigning on these questions. All of them shrink from the fight for principled leadership in the working class.

Such a leadership inust be built. For this reason we ask you to send a donation towards our monthly £500 development fund.

Send to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5.1HR. ing unpleasantly familiar as the ruling class seek to close the legal net against the working class.

To "prove" a conspitacy charge, the state does not even have to prove any offence was committed - but rather that one was intended. In other words it is the ideal frame up charge.

It is significant that this prosecut ion is going ahead under a Labour government which has ruthlessly pursued the Tories' imperialist policies in Northern Ireland.

The lessons of the break-up of discipline in the US army in Vietnam, and the tensions which have completely disrupted the Portuguese army after years of colonial repression, are not lost on the Wilson government.

They intend to keep Britain's regular army as a fighting force for the defence of the capitalist state, and prevent the growth within it of any left wing political discussion. Only then can it be used for such scab roles as strikebreaking in Glasgow, as required by Wilson.

All manner of political tendenc ies are supporting the campaign to defend the accused 14. Outside the Old Bailey on Monday were veteran pacificist Pat Arrowsmith with ageing Young Liberal Peter Hain. Despite the political confusion created by these people, the issue is an important one in the struggle against the extreme right wing course of the Wilson government. Only a campaign directed at removing Jenkins as Home Secretary and breaking th right wing hold on the Labour leadership can effectively secure the release of the 14.

At the same time the right for soldiers freely to discuss politics and organise within the army indonandantle of thair affirere