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ingıy protractea war-m wnicn • ockels ana arlery, witekmg In launching their onslaught on sources for financial ipport. In our vorking class living standards, the struggle for policies and action to defend Tories can count on millions of offensive, and our fight to build a rounds each year in donations from principled revolutionary leadership in the Right wing Labour renegades have opposition of both the capitalists and the ry capitalists anxious to smash the of our paper each week and our monthly ash backing from the union bureaucracy policies: our costs are spiralling, while o propagate its reactionary and right wing own living standards under pressure. certain to be the scene of renewed calls from the floor for still more Employers and Tory politicians are equally angry that the monetarist strategy adopted by the Ihatcher government has been more effective at bankrupting sections of industry than at cutting inflation.

They see more cuts as the only way in which Thatcher can be pressurised into cutting interest rates and thus easing the squeeze on industrial profits.

At the same time the Tory conference has provided Environment Secre tary Heseltine with handy lever for arm-twisting to force the passage of his Local Government Bill through the House of Lords.

This is the Bill which ays the basis tor penalis Ing 14 "overspending" councils to enforce Heseltine's demands for a total of £700 million in cuts.

The resistance to these local government cuts has so far focussed on comparatively few Labour councils-some of which have until now sought rate and rent increases as a way of avoiding a confrontation with the Tory government. ties have stiffened enal. Now Heseltine's stand taken, and underlined the importance of the Cambeth Labour Counci conference convened on Saturday November 1.

Delegations are invited from Labour Councils, Labour Groups, CLPs, union branches and shop stewards' committees. We urge Socialist Press sup porters to attend wherever possiblis important that ATOTSSOCI * Labout counciloIs. эте prevented from using the As the territorial war between the Ba'athist dietatorship in Iraq and the Islamic regime in Iran enters its second week, the Iraqis appear to be making slow Khuzestan.

The prolongation of the war has drawn out more clearly the line-up of forces within the Arab world.

Only Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organisation appear to have emerged in support of the beleagured Iranian regime, while the monarchies of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Oman have volunteered more or less tangible support to the Iragi offensive.

Taking advantage of the wat situation, the US imperialists ig business.

eportedly been offered up to £8 million or the launching of a new "centre" party, rganised labour movement.

The Callaghan leadership receives huge xolicies.

Socialist Press can call on none of these CAR INDUSTRY CRISIS have sent in four Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes to Saudi Arabia-supposedly to offer advance warning to the Saudi airforce of any attack on other Gulf oil states.

In fact the AWACS planes seem primarily designed to plug the evident holes in US intelligence gathering in the region.

Embarrassment These holes have led to gross misestimates of Iranian military and airforce strength and the embarąssment of Pentagon staff hearing of military developments through news agencies before their own surveillance reports arrive!

While the solidarity of the Iranian resistance in an increas the working class against the Tory labour movement, we face the outright labour bureaucracy.

Fund; And this means that we are feeling the brunt of Thatcher's inflationary our members and supporters find their work is now more vital than ever. A mass anti-Tory, anti-capitalist movement is developing within the working class-a movement which clearly lacks a consistent programme or a principled leadership.

the element of surprise has now evaporated-should come as no surprise, the ability of the Iranians to use supposedly grounded Phantom jets and incapacitated Chieftain tanks has staggered not only the Iraqis but also the British and US imperialists who manufactured them.

Yet the war itself can benefit nobody but the imperialist exploiters and the reactionary regimes of Khomeini and Saddam Hussein.

As artillery and bombs demolish Iraqi and Iranian oil installations, the oil monopolies stand to gain from contracts to zebuild, and from a new upwards pressure on 'oil and petrol prices.

As Iraqi and Iranian armies loose off salvoes of missiles, 1 mind 311 marr manliner Our income depends solely upon sales But we are convinced that our political We need to expand our political work This is whv Snrinlist Press has now

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savage cuts in public spending.