Conterence on media censorship
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Following an initiative from the National Union of Journalists, national labour movement conference has been convened to discuss the question of media censorship of reporting on the war in Ireland.
The proposal for the conference was carried at last year's Annual Delegate Meeting of the NỤJ. Since then the NUJ leadership has approached other print and media unions to support the conference. The Association of Broadcasting Staff and the film technicians' union ACTT are among those who have responded positively.
But for the conference to prove successful it must also be raised more widely in the labour movement-trade unions, trades councils and Labour Parties.
Literature on the conference is now available and readers are urged to seek every possible means of ensuring it is publicised and supported in their own areas and union branches.
Details of the conferenceto be held in Birmingham on February 28-are available from Ron Knowles, NUJ, Acorn House, 314 Grays Inn Road, London WC1.
woman worker OUR PROBLEM LEADERS WHO WONT LEAD... Available price 24p including. postage from WSL, BM Box 5277, Loncon WCIN 3XX. officer commanding the 300strong 'H' Block blanket protest across to meet with the hunger strikers.
But with the hunger strike called off, and the potential embarrassment of a hunger striker dying over the Christmas holiday averted, the Tories appear to have reneged on the concessions implicit in the document.
Optimistic
The blanket protest has not yet been called off, despite the optimistic initial announcement by the blanket men's leader Bobby Sands that: • «We are satisfied that the implementation of these proposals meets the requirements of our five basic demands. Republican prisoners will not be wearing any form of prison uniform and will not be participating, in any form of penal work."
A document is one thing: its implementation something else. The Tory leaders are seeking-plainly with some success -to manoeuvre to split and confuse the republican forces and thus hold back their resistance.
Hence talk this weekend of a possible further hunger strike if the concessions made are not implemented.
Meanwhile Loyalist leader Paisley has recognised the scope of Atkins' paper concessions, and complained that the Loyalist population has been "sold down the river"
Secret deal
There seems little doubt that pledge to prévent the deaths
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