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KKK killers walk With less than two weeks to go the WSL Rally and the end of our Special Fund we are still a long way short of our £1500 target. We have only received £749.25 leaving us a Chancellor Howe may have detected a rapid decline in the rate of inflation, but he could have fooled us because we don't notice it every time we come to pay our bills.

In fact, quite the reverse. And these bills have to be paid and finance has to be raised if we are to be able to carry out the many areas of work in which we are engaged, in the unions and the Labour Party, among women and youth.

That is why we are appealing to all our readers and supporters. Send us a day's pay to help us in the fight to build a leadership that will lead the working class against the Tories. If you are unemployed or can't afford a wiole day's pay then send us what you can afford. Every pénny A national assembly of delegates from all fire brigades met at the recall conference of the FBU to debate the action necessary to combat the Tory government's 6% pay limit.

Behind them was the anger of firemen determined to preserve the agreement which ended their 9-week 1977-78 pay strike. That deal pegged their pay to the level of average earnings, and would mean an increase this year of 18.8%.

"Not enough"

The FBU executive's plan for a series of lightning one-day strikes has been discussed and in general well-received, though a number of brigades and many individual station heanchar folt that anerlav stanTerry Parry Published by Folrose Ltd for the Registered as a newspaper at the pages were not enough to force the employers to honour the agreement.

Strathclyde and Buckinghamshire were two brigades with resolutions calling for all-out strike action, immediately or at some predetermined time.

Voted down

Many other brigades wished to table amendments to the EC proposal in order to strengthen the action.

But. the Executive had arranged that their plan of action should be debated before conference standing orders be reconvened.

This meant in effect that unless the EC proposal were voted down, no alternative resolutions or amendments would be put to the conference.

Predictably this manoeuvre succeeded in forestalling discussion on such policies and left the question of steps to escalate the action in the hands of the FBU Executive.

But delegates recognised that at stake is a head-on clash with the Tory government.

If the 6% limit is to be enforced on the public sector, then the firemen must be beaten into submission.

Anti-union This is the more true now the TUC has endorsed the FBU claim. In one battle with a small union the Tories will hope to use troops as strikebreakers and thus underline the treachery of such TUC backing.

Workers Socialist League, BM Box Post Office. Signed articles do not Secondly, the firemen will mass picket their own firestations, defying Prior's reactionary • anti-union laws which limit pickets to six in number.

Even FBU General Secretary Terry Parry predicted arrests as soon as the one-day strikes commence.

Nor will firemen allow troops onto fire stations -or allow themselves to be locked out: there is every possibility that some fire stations may be occupied.

And in the wake of the last pay strike, militant firemen can be expected to picket army scab fire stations-in defiance of the anti-union laws.

There is also a real threat 5277, London WC1N 3XX. Printed necessarily represent the views of th On this, the thirty-first day of the hunger strike by Irish republican detainees in pursuance of their just demands for Prisoner of War status, it is worth considering two opposing views within the British Labour The first, i an article in Labour Weekly (November 21, back page) by Chris McLaughlin has the scandalous headline "H Block strike lacks support". In an article largely based on statements by fake-left pro-imperialist MP, Clive Soley, McLaughlin states ... The one unanimous view among those MPs in favour of a united Ireland is that the hunger strike makes a complex political problem potentially hopeless.

"Even the most staunch Labour supporters of eventual British withdrawal draw back . 02. 000 F204000000 Sate 2204 4 Years Firemen on the march that some employers, backed by the government, may lock out firemen either until the union accept the 6% limit, or until individual strikers sign a humiliating 'return to normal working' contract.

FBU members have shown themselves ready to defy all threats and take on the government.

But as their last strike showed, they need full-scale support from the labour movement if they are to win.

And any attempt by the TUC and the FBU Executive to drag out the one-day strikes into a demoralising fiasco must be resisted by the fight for all-out action.

: Workers Socialist League.

"Justice" Ronald Reagan style was done last week when the six Ku Klux Klan members who murdered five anti-racists in Greensboro, North Carolina, walked free.

They were acquitted by an all-white jury-on the grounds from categorical support for the return of special status for H Block prisoners under present circumstances ...

Withdrawal

Immediate refutation of such convenient pessimism has been provided by the Richmond Constituency Labour Party at its general meeting of 17 November. The following resolution, (drawn up to include much of the Labour Committee on Ireland's model resolution but rejecting its compromised "policy for withdrawal" demand) was carried overwhelmingly.

"This CLP recognises the evidence that the clear popular wish of the Irish people favours a British withdrawal from Ireland and progress towards a united Ireland. Furthermore we recognise that British involvement in Ireland constitutes a major obstacle to developments towards socialism in that country. This CLP therefore:

a) rejects the current bipartisan policies of the PLP b) repudiates the policies of successive British governments which have effectively guaranteed the right of veto to the Unionist minority in Ireland, thereby ensuring that the present disastrous situation remains unresolved;

c) feels that effective communication between British and Irish organisations is essential and urges that measures be taken to ensure that British trade unionists and Labour Party members are provided with accurate information about the views of their Irish counterparts.

Pd) instructs the Labour Party leadership to adopt a policy favouring political and military withdrawal;

Be) calls on the next Labour massive £750.75 to raise.

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LEAGUE Christmas Bazaar Cowley Community Centre, Oxford SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 12 noon to 4 London that they acted in "self had defence".

Yet TV viewers all over the world saw the gunmen simply open fire on the demonstrators from the back of a car.

The Ku Klux Klan were among the reactionary organisations to throw their weight behind Reagan's presidential campaign. government to immediately and unconditionally:

1) grant prisoner of war status and release all political prisoners.

2) Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

3) withdraw all British military and political involvement in Ireland."

The Richmond resolution is yet further evidence that where the issues involved in the Irish war are fully debated within the labour movement, support can be won for a position of solidarity with the Irish people.

As the Irish hunger strikers make their eloquent call for support from their British brothers and sisters it is necessary for every socialist to take up the fight. This means you!

Emergency resolutions supporting the hunger strikers' five demands should be tabled at every union branch and Labour Party meeting. Delegations must be mobilised for the national demonstration 'Don't Let the Hunger Strikers Die' to be held in London on December 7.

Labour councilors and MPs and union officials at every level must be forced to lend their weight to the campaign for the estoration oi political status t the republican prisoners of Long Kesh and Armagh Gaol-which alone can save the lives of the men and women hunger strikers.

Those that refuse to take such a stand must be exposed as open defenders of the oppression of the Irish people by the same capitalist class that, through the medium of the Thatcher government, is carrying through savage attacks on the British working class.

If they won't fight British imperialism in Ireland, be certain that such leaders will also surely betray your struggles at home!

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