Socialist Press no. 236

MINERS' VICTORY SHOWS

CUTS CONFERENCE: 21 March, LONDON Details, see page 9

PRESS

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 236 * 25 February 1981 * 20p

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Rent campaigners in 1973 * When last week the local authority workers, and others thrown out miners walked all over the of the workforce onto the dole Tory government, inflicting Cucus back to ue Home d the first major defeat since

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Thatcher conned her way to TWU leaders sit idly by! What a lesson office in 1979, they did far facing more than defend their own months anead. Unly jobs. action-linked to occupation in the case of threatened tactories nev knocked the stutting out of the feeble argument that —can conront the anacks being government ont fight this waged by the bosses and the Tory gov They into the

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arument That workers should respect the ana successruuy rescue su un.

"viability" of capitalist indus- economic" pits, oint the way forward to eve try. They roughed up Thatcher's ection of workers to cast asid rumous monetarist strategy ol imposing limits in the public And in their ThIS that instead take up knock-out victory they showed defend their own jobs and living

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LOaT E11S hated government of bosses, standaros. and is not it Lavialists call uc brouguL Gown- factories or corporations as the if a lead is given to the organised working class. capitalist system which is bank- rupt: it is incapable of offering times have many workers fighting closures, redun the working class even the ele pressing wage aancies mentar demands heard their union decent living standards officials declare that they The willing to struggle but first section of workers to fight members won't fight"? uncompromismay mn cerence o Their challenge the ments for capitalists to cast them back years, and the dole queues closures under Callaghan and concession 1-natcner turn Britain into an industrial wasteland, while living Were similar action to be taker standards have fallen steadily e sewere in maustry and the public services, Deno maton Yet NUM officials- Tarly in Kent, Scotland, South even more be achieved. wales and Yorkshire-prenared fight on ay claim for instance may be

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this closures. They campaigned the next to force Thatcher t thou slike ration ate hey retreat (if acton nev tem leaders to cal a natona secured 86% and 90% support- that create a even weeks But important that gave victories are in strengthening the Workul class as a whole. only guarantee of protection for ne event went tar-taster tha the leadership had expected jobs What a contrist to the miser- mobilisation able flascoes movement for a general strike OI DrOTeST cam- paigns against closures in British to bring down the Tories, and Steel, British Leyland to press home Bowaters, Dunlops, Tate socialist policies from a Labour and government. EVe a now at inwood! What contrast to the Only of surrender tens can thousands of jobs in the public services-school meals workers; ism and develop the productive

GAY RIGHTS

MARCH

Demonstrate against state repression of Lesbian and Gay people

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY

Starting 1pm at Oxford Road/ Mancunian Way, MANCHESTER

WORKERS

CAN OUST

THAT CHER

workers; health forces of society in the interests of the vast majority of people.

Until then a threat hangs over us all. The miners. for instance have won a verbal agreement workers that the closure plans be aban- struggles doned. But-even if the agree. all-out ment nad been in writing-the employers are bound seek and means of driving up exploitation in the pIts And if the miners can tight Meanwhile the Tory attack still the rent and rate increases, cuts in doesn't this cuucauon.ouon services and health care and sky-high infla- tion. There is no doubt that these employer and thoughts were at the forefront the fight to or me mimes ol those miners who wanted to continue fight even after the Tory climb- The fact of the matter is that own last week. mere s a nuge much individual feeling for action to bring down the Thatcher government. At present a major focus of militancy is to be found in the job and struggle against cuts in local government spending, and the have been the mercases in Tales and rents ma are being inflicted on working class households. The example of the NUM of the rally campaign -going out *LO mass support to a fight-must be rammed home to every left They forced an immediate Labour councillor who seeks a the Tories. back against Way 1 natcher. They must be told to go it is possible onto the council estates. concessions could moolise tenants into commit.

tees, organise the unemployed the fight, water workers Dursuing then support address of accus councu workers an it toot and nator all they can first force out resistance to cuts in service and increases in rates or rents.

The Have JUSt such sasnca une cash mits on une NCB: now action must be taken to smash Heseltine's cash limits MUnE local authorities. Lisal and living standards is the only be done through mass- labour based confrontation. The Tories are attacking o1 all tronts it is on all tronte tha the fight working men, women and youth must organise and prepare fight back. planned socialist Socialist Press commits itself to for the ansWel une campaign consistently of crisis-ridden canital.

necessary policies and leadership to take that fight forward

REAGAN DIGS IN BEHIND

SALVADOR JUNTA

SPANISH COUP BID

Euro-TUC shuns Turkish junta Page 2 The brutal face of the It means that if a military Meanwhile the Sunday victory is to be secured, Reagan Times week has helped Reagan administration's reinforce underline the nature of the iina means to foreign policy has emerged through revime keet taking of Vietnam-style direct US military within weeks defend by providing proof intervention, ghastly office. army massacre persuading the neighbouring 300 peasant men It has been made plain that the Guatemalar nonuuldi Choten Moreias Reagan regards border last May. alctatorships, Witt to prop lo the boody muitar! remnants from Somoza's Nicar- dictatorship El Salvador aguan National Guard, to form a Blacking daily murdering surrogate fighting force workers, peasants and left wing time he must While trade salle American cut off the supply unionists must step up the fight Declaring that they will take the guerrillas "whatever funnellec extensivelý through defend blacking of military aid to the regime Sandinista regime in Nicar- and end to

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junta moutivul Duvulat ¡costalle agua. the C10

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ing openly of a possible military British workers too

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Adventures blockade of Cuba to prevent the for practical and political solid- the people of El arity with flow of arms to the rebels in E.

Salvador he scene is set tor a serier Salvador Meanwhile the flow of military Though the grotesque American arms, mercenaries and offers Solidarity Campaign tures by US imperialism support to the capital uncritica auvIsors lu unita nas ocer. celta • Ашелса. walte man ist-led FDR, and fails to focu stepped up by Reagan after the neighbouring regimes and temporary disruption caused by European governments look on on the need to support the left em barrassment at the murder of with considerable unease forces the who are in practice lead- political 1UUl Alicial lavoul Junta Igalists. solton to the connict. istonan deals with the capitalist-led meir bookier de servacor. it Military steps Revolutionary Latin American Vietnam con- tains useful information Front (FDR) which they But it is clear that Reagan It is available (50p plus p&p) will be forced to take even more une Dest means the stable capitalist rule. military tom te Ei salvadol sondally it And they fear Campaign, 29 Islington Park St., if that US ill d London N1. military intervention-direct oi DOSILOn Lo encar de Tencious struggle by the guerrillas of the spark

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further wave of mass resistance Latest Pentagon studies throughout Centrai ana Latin surgest The Alenca. Teoodresid Ine

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the vicinity army's fighting strength of tion of regimes in less half of El Salvador. than that But with defeat the 5,000- Reagan's govern- intent o eu certas

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reasser LIne This takes no account of the Jo mutary divisions ebbing morale

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alliance and the world scale, armed Iorces themselves. likely protests veicuons and muune wall) continue Reagan cuts of As members the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) preparing to take vote of confidence on Prime hit workers Minister designate Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, members of the para-military Civil Guard stormed into the Chamber, ordered MPs to lie Al Iht very point when down on the floor and fired the Thatcher warning shots into the air.

executing Ronald The situation cosures, Redeall. American Thatcher, was unveil- press Monday evening ing a savage, militarist budget remains confused. Cuts in income tax of 10% in including Gonzalez, leader of the Socialist each of the next three vears and increased arms spending are to Party ane •antiaco be financed b ending leader of the Communist Party - n22,000 milion shes year both of whom cuts of chamber the Lule Main victims on all counts reported the US working class- been taken away by Civil are Guards to and an employed unemployment. nation, along with other leading But employers will benefit creation programmes medicaid from generous increases tax subsidies. Govern- Hundreds of Civil Guards and transport allowances 1OD• quickly moved position inside the Parliament building, nology. • However much a gesture, has been allowed to continue Abroad, the stepping up of the refusal of the Brussels- coup. surveillance by and …once the Reports of persistent torture based European TUC to go : services of anti-unt: Intelicence meted out to many of the tens activists has gone alongside ahead with their planned threats withdraw ciousanus родиса st exiled dissidents pass- visit to Turkey is an import- prisoners widespread and are alll beginning to be an ant step forward in exposing Torce tem to тешт to wurkey ment to ''s military the of Though clearly affectins repressive nature and their beyond forces General Evren's ruling junta.

working internally class It was the rejection by the ments. that Ced dictatorship of the delegation's government has set 11se t The Inhuman visit primary ' task of breaking up the

DISK

trade reacer or me wok mace unon unions, having confederation which was cited One case receiving consider- cone

ETUC

General Secretary able towards this than was attempted Hinterscheid as Istanbul's former mayor,

RPP

over or 197tals" previous take- Ahmet Isvan, supporter He added that it amounted trial

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to an admission of charges that barracks with military spokesmen still fear multary leaders. prisoners were than anything a working inhuman treatment and would The junta has recently class which thev know has not be denied proper legal facilities.

been will inevit-

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crushed Cang

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Ironically accusations from Isvan's family ably be forced to defy the harsh LIlE lave down of measures they seek consistenta Turned to impose requests from DISK for affilia- methods, denials so unconvinc- Instead they recog they Neme ca nised class collaborationist responsibility from within comfort from continuing the the state security forces.

left-wing California march protests against US role in El Salvador while police wert reported to have surrounded the building and sealed off approach roads. The Civil Guard, which are part of the army, were refusing the police permission to enter the building. valencia. The loca army commander was reported have immediately martial law, imposed a curtew, Taken COnTrO EnE . Paolo station and banned all political activity. He claimed / to be awaiting King Juan Carlo orders Trom who was at his palace but had not issued any statement other "every thing tual was uncer control With the army chiefs of staff session, it remains in emergency this action by unciedi •wueter the Guards is a cour supported by the army generals There has been an increasing danger the ou sucH Cous

UCD

government nas the problems resolve many Ot facing Spanish capitalism-one guerrilla groups. and •Jesolte Mass - allesu exemplary hangings the few weeks them renew assassina- inal an

TONS

The interna tional ruling class the period Kematist Evren's for Procla bonapartism, anca nas suecoss fully pulled behind it for the Bourgets layers which formetty many petty were the bace •OI Tne Stas. fascist party. Assessment But there is no guarantee Evren's sucess The US Senate Armed Services Committee been making assess past week, while Deputy Premier Ozal has making

NO INTERVENTION IN

CENTRAL AMERICA

of the most acute being continuing forces armed struggle acast une •odrist Colce ano arm ne political crisis created by the resignation of

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Prime vin Ster and the difficulty in construct.

Calvo Sotelo coincided wied te government led by

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sarou. Crisis Euskadi (the Basque region).

The massive • TE of ETA police murder , suspect, Torcoa me warac Francoist police into a desperate attempt to provoke a right wing In the face of some of the biggest strikes and protests even the Basque country the tive police interrogator who arrestad tortured Arregui to death and suspended Madrid police chiet and leading police doctor in response to inis arack or police authority as a concession to mass protest in Basque Ine acquaintance of Reagan's military adviser. At the same time he has the

IMF

beer Wa nineton support the Turkish bour geoisie but the imper will • proot that thi goods can be delivered. The Turkey Solidar- ity Campaign has pro- duced its first 'Informa- tion Bulletin on Turkey Labour for the and Trade Union Movement' which is available, free of charge, from TSC, BM Box 5965, London

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 of the Francos securi police or the resigned. to retire to their shametaced Cola montes They resigned as part of an pull together the attempt extreme right to forces of the prepare тo der ne or odan! "'democracy" few hours today tell whether the events were. the result of the blottint of these police chiefs and right or is smal desperalt move group of extreme right wingers the armed forces which leading generals will refuse 'tut support-not opposed such a coup but because a ramaturo movo Certainly that was their response previously. And the that the attack led the taking

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form coordinated coup throughout Spain suggests that this might well be their response dodu the •crisis facing However Spanish capitalism and Spanish since leaders may well decide that the time has finally for comt against ETA anc the Basque people. If this is the case, the leader of the working clas at the head , ano Communis Parties bear a heavy responsibil ity. threat f a coup it would materialise It they proved them selves sufficiently servile to Spanish capitalism. have taken a totally unprincip.

led position , in opposition to the struggle • the Basque peopk At the same time they have done nothing working Tine class against the threat of an army a Socialist Pres • is currently in Soair reporting on these dramatic events in coming issue of Socialist Press.

Women workers in the Six Counties SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 Catholic women in the occupied six counties of Ireland stand in the fore- front of the struggle against imperialism. They fight as workers, anti-imperialist militants and as wome 1969 when the mass of the Catholic working. their demands onto the streets, were around housing, wages and control over the affecting their daily lives. unemployment has shot up years over years further; already abysmal

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conullions nave wages have been cut while prices have risen harply the official overall aure

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December is a massive 16.3% the level for Catholic is 2½ that. of workers times •rolestdil wolKCIs. the unemployment statistics for Catholic majority towns such as 42.1% male unemployment and 18.2% female unemployment The overall rates for other Catholic art Cookstown 30.3%, Dungannan 33.1%, Newry 26.9% and Derry While the overall rate for temale 11.7%, this is again a gross ancest mate account married workers who 10 l wHen over. obscures the much higher rate among Catholic working class women, • contes. <3o o1 the registered workforce are women. Of the 200,000 w /omen 1977; anyacal estimated 66,000 were in part- time work. A Dout 4u or those working are unionised, the vast majority of these being the full time For those who believe in the right of nations to self- determination, and who alliance between the Labour leaders and the Tories on the question of treland is a major scandal.

The "bi-partisan" policy implemented successive Labour and Tory governments U11 Lilt struggle 10 l06 , six counties of Ireland through a combination of military and LOYalSI military violence and legislation designed to the repub- lican movement. All this is rein- we and over Dres censorship and repressive laws in Britain such so-called Prevention of Terrorism Act.

of But cerence sucn a poncy has been volced chiefly by Labour they have rested for support not on rank and Ile Labour Party By far the most exploited section of the lemale workforce part-time non-unionised women workers, many of whom home doing stitching Packus all clothing industry. the However. evel powerful sections of the female unionised full workers-earn less Than Thelt Cass Sisters British Isles and receive only two-thirds of the wages of their class brothers in the six Conditions in the factories appalling, are WITh and safety regulations, hen th.. part ignored.

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ON IRELAND

the British mem hers but on trade union bureaucracy. Not a single leading union ornicial in Britain nas taken up or fought for a policy of with- drawing British troops LaST strikes by republican prisoners in Long Kesh demanding political status.

only a handful of British union deaders lem mer senatures to petition sup- porting their five demands.

Witch-hunt But within their own unions and through General Council of the

TUC.

bureaucrats have been ready and willing. to witch hunt socialists and militants who have fought or a full debate on the war of year saw such witch-

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hunts within the

TGWU, CPSA

and ASLEF-and the disaffilia-

MOONE

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RIK MUCK

Gallaher women strikers march in 1979 women workers to fight The sewage system was such that the sewage seeped onto the ware all for all moroccal conditions, factory floor. their working even in the face of the blatant protective clothing was and class collabor- provided for the • prawn shellers sexism open who required continual hospital treatment for from Is cemonsuated important strikes over the last shells lodged in their hands 30 November 1978 The prawns were full womer workers frozen food factory in Kennedy plained they were told to Way Industrial Estate in Belfast Canteen workers were not well on strIke. allowed on the lactory after 3:00 p.m., thus prohibiting une workers StruCk over conditions in the factory, wages them from going to the toilet and victimisations the Packers were forced to lif Working conditions in 56 lb skips of herrings from the factory were barbaric factory extremely floor to the table. cold-the If conditions were thermometer being The wages were even worse. By John Lister by the TUC for the "crime" of Prevention Terrorism Act convening a labour movement Campaign' have been threatened conference on Ireland. Tameside-stvle WIl campaign against tion. disaffiliation widespread A circular has been sent to -with around 50 Trades support- all trades councils telling them Councus and other union bodie nor to suppom une conrerence.

since it challenges the TUC's backing a

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•amesde s reinstatement. But the fight at own pro-imperialist policy.

the TUC Congress wa derailed by

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the delegation, Crude attempt their Ionescu manne to move reterence nack of that section of the General Despite hypocritical "ments to the contrary, this is state Council report by this, and simply a further crude attempt bicuulara Stalinists of the by the TUC leaders to Communist Party (who oppose ascusson on terdo within the the struggle against British labour movement-a discussion Ireland which they •ane only on the British cal discredit lurther Lieu owH apitalists to "Bill of grant a "Better Life wretcre• so-caleel Rights to the Irish people in for All Campaign" six counties) the TIC has differences with she Revolition political now launched a new, extended witch-hunt. Tendency who ary communist Five trades councils that run the Smash the PTA Cam- have •sponsored a labour ign: We disagree move- in particular Ireland with their uncritical support to comerence Smash convened the the republican movement, and Page 3 First of two parts by Mary Smythe basic wage of the prawn shellers union leadership in the factory was t1z./› per week. ine pro was crawe excusvery Irom un ductivity bonus only came into higher paid male workers.

the had the effect when workers workers initiated the • strike carried Comicie quota of 56 0219 . pounas ol

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weeks prawns. with 200 Ener If they failed to reach their children on the pickêt line, an male strike committee daily put up on the wall. The packers.

carried on negotiations with thi basic wage • was £35.75, management they The women were allowed no not dispute and wereforced backto running Lau woll11 were commonplace with management WOrk WILt assaulting less than the management offer physically workers. 32% during the dispute. shop steward who complained about dismis- wne unose women workers sals and working conditions. who are fortunate enough to have a job face appalling work- Irish Harassment cas women as a whole face While the women, members of the

ITGWU

- stood on the areas of picket line and faced harassment Treiand -NOrEner. mancemen Housing Executive's own police who tried to smuggle in statistics, 50% of its existine blacklegs, Paddy Devlin, Genera housing stock is unfit for human Secretary of the ITGWU , nego- tiated a sell-out deal with the manaton Overcrowding Belfast employers. affects four times many The women were subse- in Greater workers as London back to work quently forced Catholic mouse to t will a mmma bay mcrease. would be ratio even higher) promise There seven times are conditions and a promise of n many inside victimisations houses with Four leading militants in the Bushing Toler strike twere nevenzy bath This These workers, missed. excludes thousand: to a sell-out the reaction forced. to in a previous dispute, nove houses that have already been had restored tom une union condemned. In this strike they rejoined Once condemned, the Hous the

ITGWU

and 1 succeeded ing Executive refuses accept getting the strike made official, to responsonu to be betraved vet and discriminates against the by that same union leadership.

occupants regarding rehousing In May 1979 4,200 workers These appalling housing con- ditions are reflected in the large Callacher Belfast and Ballymena tobacco factories numbers of families burned to death each year as a result of went on strike. faulty wiring. A 5% pay increase paid to They are reflected in the 5% the craft workers had been denied the infant mortality and the •shopfloor rate fact 30% of that deaths workers. une whom women. While the bulk of the work- chitis-both even in bourgeois force was comprised circles regarded as indicators of these badly paid women workers, the extreme poverty

*TROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

their slap-dash use of slogans Britain*s

SUCK

MERSEYSIDE

which simply confuse and alienate militants and social-

FACTORY CLOSURES

ISLE

But we readers and Fisher Berdix Leyland Dunlop Meccano supporters to fight within their Why campaigas unions for maximum opposition to this latest move by the TUC noro lost &t suppress legitmale ponca how they can be discussion within the labour movement and bureaucratically uphold a bankrupt and reaction- ary policy on Ireland. This fight essential if support is to be widened for the maculale Wita troops from AN Ireland and self-determination for the Irish people. conference-appropri ately Price 27p including entitied IU Hands off Leis, Coventry on Mare 04 Ireland" is • at Lanchester postage from WSL, BM Box 5277, : London available

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NO POLICY IN COVENTRY!

Camden rebels' letter Camden left fights on Danger. Splitters at ended work - clIce farce-thanks manoeuvring by wing. The leaders of Coventry The which Labour Group have been eoarer working playing a vicious game with including the workers of Coventry in housing their attempt to get massive was cuts approved. wiich District Party. They said for that every job they 'save' TMe e oc! sector and the Ine choice therefore million su% and 15% ande no est3-B0t.

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redundancies in industry.

course employers have lost no time taking up this alsuil vill anu tact Coventry's biggest firms, Court- aulds, Massey Ferguson and Torrington have • said they wil shut down if the rate rises are Too nian Jaguar Covrad and have threatened that lalt LISeS Will paid for by redun- Ilave cancies The pressure has been on for workers bullale WalS- hand tl y nano wito plead for urerl bosses and massive cuts to keep the rate, rises down. Companies have quoted how many jobs will go for every 1% rise in rates. Of these figures all Ictitious: the rates are onl companies roportion of these not for the fall in pro but the uuv un. cemaly campaign has a political purpose private public sectors against each other -rather than lointli employers councu ame orivate loss of jobs or

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In Jaguars, negotiating committee discussed the threat- ened rate sisto ana senl a aee- canon to une council Some the convenors talked of persuading the council to deler rate rises or omner o1s- knew pensaton-altnough they in advance this wasn't on.

uNlud WIlCl worker. got wind of these manoeuvres the convenors hastily mate bury them. majority of Coventrv's 'rebel' now colnciiots are arguing that for the immediate period they defend services by jobs and Lale Ilsus fertile this

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lay g eroller for the employers and the right campaign against wing rises and that means the need mobilise and cilts sovermelı ILS OCa government policy is lost in the of "which do sending cats , tises prefer? Rate public Left wing councillors in real threat to the cuts strategy.

Camden have pressed When iT came further in their fight against axing of Ine department jobs the package of were torced to abstain on theil proposed by the right wing •WE motion Labour council leaders. even greater Labour leadership's proposals to In an open letter sianed bv councillors-reprinted Ten yo trougit. this page-they seek to the Ano labour proposed repairs movement in a fight to actually referred back after left save jobs and selVICeS AT Ine Labour Grouo mest.

wing councilors voted against it with the Tories. ing on Monday February 16 the Panicked monted a direct challenge lo tuic icadelsfto were narrowly «noucn thev defeted elections the Housing Committee three leading positions in Labour the wcy snoweo mat tem w itte . InLere stand is not mere rhetoric.

extra to million on t ebruary 18 the tent And DLO workforce. council meting Within the Coureiors volta acarsu Ine counicil of the Labour Group the ten. councillors now threat- ma ority on all major proposed cuts.

the right eing to finane hey Since the Labour Group has only a sa tult mal ority of une

CULS

Council leader counc, Inis derlance posed a Coventry District Labour that at 4.20 p.m. on Sunday a specially convened Distric Party's recently-held Local Party meting would Government Policy Confer- VULd moLon One-1n2 in complete adopted throughout Le DONey weekend would to cynical • TRe the right- The conference itself attended with Jelly OnV two-day handful of right wingers turn- comerence reports from ing up. parties topics At around 4.00 education, Sunday afternoon, however and social services wa District Party started not empowered to adopt policy to appear in substantial numbers binding the and ten proceed to vote down " Conference adopted.

motion-leaving Party TRe It had therefore been agreed with no policy coming out of

AŞTMA

19.73 march on rents through Camden: now Camden Labour Left must prevent a similar sell-out in 1981 panicked into calling an emer- 2, in grou meting on to a vote on March 600 bulding hopes ot cobblina the Tories Logetner a dear betore the ratt This wil be resisted by sehi ons meeting March TIXInO which called for to allow the of the left .Fletcher, chairman of the Bulding Works and Services right wing's Committee taken a correct budget stand on was calle rale inereases in such circumstances: *1 am not prepared to vote for whict has constructed lolai oooos tion to Ine dollces ot tre Groun anc Party Te adur It must now go back to the being is a complete and abandonment ot any brinciole Group-where the left al ail, ana a compiete capitula tion to the District Auditor ..

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to sustain the is not a socialist budget-and it's just not acceptable.'

contines of the this not the Aitnough chamoer ine stand by same salicy. that Socialist Press sup confrontation rates package needed by arguing for •orters have oten in the labour movement, it is a principled stand that has to be Shaw has supported by all socialists.

the week-end. amount of con. h catam now exists as to the And

TUYON

• as position of the District Party. The : previously existing 'Rebel' councillors stood of no cuts, no rent increases and Inem . presumably Tali Canerenses comes ree ie ase balk. initiative However, the of tulicec those who had only a few week: proposal by the District Anti-Cuts voted to adopt this stand argued forcefully for convene a conterence sufficient rate increase prevent any which would vuls diu ii was tos District

DOLC

walch the cuts. Only a handful at the con- ference, hally trom coventry We, the undersigned Camden Labour Councillors quite were elected, with twenty- Lo eT two colleagues, to the protect and enhance the living stan- shared by the fortunate dards of the people of this we and Borough, and in particular cillors those who are most in need able of such protection-the disqualification poor, the sick and the other- wise disadvantaged. We make no apology for the fact that, to meet this objective, the Environment Camden has been and is a high accountable to no-one spending local authority it The provides the best services in the asking country and opinion dols and charge and election results have shown that eeking the people of Camden are proud LUWCoL-Dat achievements wages am( public spending has brought week-two-thirds .of Dul snce me «ovent or th average Tory government, local author has ities-and Camden reisiy bece or pane standards ly told us Ovsen—are unprecedented rents by onslaught on their programmes, altl whereby not only threatened but surcharge Ute who e concept of local democracy is being called into question While thousands of Camden the face residents for many of wall desperately Council housing the Labour ment has, by heavily reducing Bs thác to harc ben rong: iF the housing subsidy not that Housme brooramme so that not only are we unable to build new homes and moder.

tive to giving way. nise older ones, as we wer elected to do. but we canna even properly maintain any of hand, other wish aor enisi al hre sine clear Thus, heall be forced ts its way Camden's housing, We were not elected te • be lorcer to its out Tory attacks on the living walc chief capital standards of peon e's asset, gradually decaying into slums. IcvItseTE. At the same respect umie. out tate We support grant is being reduced, democratic right so that to maintain services to out of office Such fight has to be action on March 4 and instruct- copled struggle ing Camden NALGO witn the discredited leaders ramove Hegellalt of the group and to unite with early retirement and voluntan those unions and tenants associ- redundancy on are moving into terms. oLenS wine conflict with the council.

focus will now turn to ing in the North of England in the unions order to carry ove une nexı tew member- weeks move to ship took a major decision at a unions in cameen mahs the dinci's berayds.

meeting luesday straightforward A resolution was passed that seem ,among other things calec

UCATT,

opposition to increases : in rents so far refused to participate in rates, union resistance to the cuts-but nego-

SUNDUTL

tiators cc cd vc e a ceva strike on March 4, a 50p weekly

LOCT

outracee levy on members to preparé for sums offered by the council in future action redundancy anc a manade co the coordinate future Town Hall meeting last week industrial action. But the campaign suffered a Socialist Press understands a setback last Wednesdav when " mass NALGO mass meeting voted by meclic convener TOr 700 votes to 400 to accept a may well be called upon to take right Natona recel resolution from indefinite vatKe bICK strike Tecelne This fight must be followed South-East CLP voted to stick ence proposals means that this to the no rate increase position Comelerde ll • not lake placı far as Socialist Press unless another labour movement is aware only one of Coventry's body calls it. with Coventry • Trades Council has contented itself with organising Perhaps the most important alooby ot the Labour Group come 'oi the meting and has laid no OuL plans , discussions was for fighting the cuts directly • The Party Whoberley w aro La DOU. Committee Party last week passed a resolu .open tion callin on the South West the labour movement as a whole

CLP

to call a conference open have • job of all •Labour martes. Tra0 agreeing a united response unions, tenants associations and community groups to develop decision of the right campaign against the cuts wing to vote down the confer- locally. the people of Camden, we are tion if the wish-that being forced to raise rates to a what :local democrac extent about. But we are not prepared • cost of service dictated by i ne non- elected usduyanlaged may accountant or bi Minister and Government As if this were not enough elected on an express mandate increase, not to diminish, emocratically accoun local democracy; ereclors. _ are nou Accordingly, we will oppose by all the means open to us tha!

proposal withdraw the merely Camden supplement, which appointed by the Department ol would mean no wage increase at and publicly all for two years for our lowesi paid employees in the face of ar District Auditor is nou ever-tising cost of living; we will High Court to sur- oppose the propos‹ lo mereds disqualify us io the District renls as uiclated Dy 1979 give ou Auditor; and we will oppose the decent decimation of the direct labour onkers conditions (£60 a organisațion bIllC the ther mean, besides even longer delays which in housing maintenance Wakt and with 2,000 bulding workers how usel o rearv wice their minimum take-home pay) already unemployed in Camden, Besides this, he has effective.

the redundant utsoerauon lo that, unless we ana Inelr tamiles at least £3.25 a week We call upon our colleague in the Labour Group and in th cul our drect anour statt 600, he will seek a further Labour Party, the trade unions all and Leelit Thus we are attacked on two those who care about local fronts, and it is no surprise that, and the welfare of democracy threats, camden people, to join with us our colleagues in

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In. ts sadgoe Grout find themselver Somewhere the dismantling unable to resist the pressure. It of local government • has believe stop; Tory somewnert policy of solving this country's that they can see no alterna- economic crisis nassiy unemployment

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impoverishment of the poor ha We, the undersigned, on the somewhere conronred® to make der. Let the batte start to the people who electer fought for. Let that we will not surrender.

in Camden, Yours faithfully, Councillors: Par Disoll, Nat Bowmar the people Tom Devine, Fletcher, Joan Hymans. the people's Peletier Livingstone throw Phyl Turner, John Tysoe, Jenny at the next elec- Willmot. through by UCATT steward Executive as part of the struggle to put the whole of the Camden workers redeoiovment movement war loptill the council's the right wing counci agalisl the Tory govern. degders and Blick had cancelled a meet ment attack. through split the unity of the might for instance has

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SUPPORTERS

rumoured Public meeting - lo mave paltry "Labour Councils and the Cuts" payments (Speakers include Lambeth Councillor) Friday 27 February 8.00pm been now March 3 which Cowley Community Centre Barnes Rd., Oxford strike action from 4

POPLAR: A COUNCIL

THAT DEFIED THE

GOVERNMENT

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 Part Two The establishment of a central pool of finance to cover poor relief was seen by all sides as a victory for the Labour councl Poplar over the Tory-Liberal coalition government, and as a victory for direct action over constitutional action.

This was an embarrassment right wing and Labour's their Sirenered resolve noth remove Lansbury as editor of the Daily the Herald to : start exclusion of Communists tron the Labour Party. several or the councillors openly Com- munist Party members. subject on which KraMson s

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Communists ubject of was revolu- Conflicts inevitably occured between Communists within the strugture and local coverac For instance, Communists the led both workers in Poplar and the Board or Guaroans mock controled Poor Relief payments! Strong base It would be important for us now lice Coll Ilicts were resolved within ine Communist Party: Another insuffic- question iently dealt with is the relation- • CANS tO LIC ultra-left Communists around Sylvia Pankhurst had a strong base of support in Poplar through her work in the suffragette move- ment, and her later opposition the war and support ior the But she remained completely g. entr condemned Party and as "spreading illusions in reform any attempt to get elected Ism as councillors o MPs. the question is In one sense the mass mobilis- answeet by accompanied arrest of the councillors.

later developments relief around the rate of poor the councilors from a section of the unemployed Poplar continued to -the difference being paid out of local rates. Various attempts them jeduce force government held loans to which Poplar, like other borough, was very entitled. They issued an "order" that scale peternave was illegal. Poplar retaliated by strike another Inreatening paying central lales. Recession The Guardians claimed "special circumstances" for every payment which meant that the district auditor had payments could be disallowed and the councillors surcharged The seemed BUT ill Call 'anolie struggie. ine auditors reports failed defeats trade unions had enabled to reduce wages. The rate of poor relief was by 1923 consid erably that

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Wary employed workers could earn.

official ministry rate of Then the cuts agreed by Ernest Bea

TGWU..

Poplas Toms became the strike headquarter and the Guardians agreed to pay the horror: of press Ine

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tand leaders). One in four of Poplar's population was on relief. now end of the • strike it relief scale leaving it still above the official legal scale of 9d per day per aerson Although the majority of the unemployed grouped Communist the Party-domina Unemploved Tedi Workers Movement went along this, it led members or angry confrontation with W OIKeS Organisation run by Sylvia Pankhurst The , incident or ces tant

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«uncutes went The Poplar by 'the right wing. success of Morrison prevent- action in other boroughs ing Isolated Tire betrayals of Bevin and others put the over wages Poplar's Ivel WaLes relief payments. Althopen thor the Traded the Trades support Council, Labour Party, and tacitlv the CP for their decision seem to represent does watershed. Legalistic way Afterwards Poplar's conflicts with the government in nave Deen 1019 8. increasingly legalistic way with- out the mass involvement HE 181 It COT Ma

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matter of course to the the the lemonins Poor." The final stage struggles was over council wage surcharging ales. councillors for "excessive" and relief payments. of the aile Lilt

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Labour government in 1924 naa further demoralised workers. this Poplar's 2r3 40% week 'wage

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men anot women above the wages in surrounding Page S

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reviews the book 1919-1925' Poplarism by Noreen: Branson, published by Lawrence and Wishart. this deal! When resented the defeat of the General Strike. strengthened thei • they provoked a new crisis by taking Neville Chamberlain. to and having his cancella- of the surcharges declared illegal. •Control tim as then that the reseat control system established War Chamberlain brought in a new Act under surcharger disqualif councillors would • be once tol rve venes. and surcharges could not be waived by the minister past howeve surchase including those on Poplar were cancelled. So the employers did thei vengeance But groundwas AR most Wild

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vividly from Branson's book i that situation the councillor: not the main difference between Poplar and

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today's struggles.

MINCI

Mass movement Poplar" council established with confrontation stood firmly allu make workers bear the cost of the crisis Changes in the law Poplar rally absurd interpretations of the The legal proceedings against secure feminist ambition laW ovaluare were bowenes against them as long as they hac the Poplar oi the Lilt this movement behind them.

matter of wages.". ninged on waeter the auty to George Lansbury fix wage rates" given to councils The councillors were now to illay the Local Government Act surcharged paid left to sum up their experience since 1921 and for relet pad- nam ber an ally want lale Churchill, Birkenhead and chose. . from ments since iner releas. not mind Labour and do In all about £2 million prison.

ICSI

are Surcharged at today's majonte, content to keep thing they None o are. They do not mind a Labour the councillors had any The House of Lords decided property overnme based on com trai Sunday Afternoon. Government must be Neville Chamberlain, the that is content on comparison with the untouched the sacred ark of the going rate for the job and looking for a confrontation,

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"eccentric principles of the Poplar Council negotiatec governing class, with the in s.

socialistic philanthropy or by a Colorse cunning they know •reduce its wages o allow the how exercise In return the Minister would cancel surcharges all the out. WOrKer signs and symbols of Council could equal pay ward keep democracy: We elect i municipal • 0] anu could councils and other new wages to a cost of living index • election if they dare •DUl put socialist policie into • THis permanent kept "artful dodgers operation the differential of 20% for men and 50% for women above other who rule us scheme and not to local boroughs and overthrow Labour majorities."

private "What matters not what employers. Ihis was put to the . we say but what we do.'

•workiorce and carried /UU to z Local employers of course Concluded Our policies Socialist Press pamphlet outlining programme of action against the Tory offensive. posta Box 5277 from London WCIN 3XX Ernest Bevin

Man made language

STATE INTERVENTION AND

Page 6 Oh well. You can learn something, new every day-

URARS L

it. unsettles your most cherished illusions.

I certainly learnt somethine when Dale Spender' Man Made Language. sustained assault on 1l ls a many my most treasured prejudices English anguage. It was tempting to put

DOOR

brush it aside. But I stuck at it.

She has a point. When studied English saw at : school and University as a casure MOuse dsalaneece -one combining the very of the Romance languages and the Germanic heritage: a lan- guage of flexibility, oi nuante. of subtlety, giving scope for the fullest range of meanings.

1 Excluded But Dale Spender points to many and 'meanings milancer find reflection expression in English. She shows why is the expencnce the ages which women havé been excluded not only from the literature but also the day-to-day use of English.

English language for i ne ine aghisno exper con agonising experience childbirth experienced by coluuess munons on women.

and c they che really embody and convey the humilia- apte Untikee disgusting LOn, . Ine nature of: rape. four-letter taboo tape' teadiy oft the tonore even in polite conversation and countryside,, the 'rape' oi the Con coSa Here and elsewhere English has gaps where there should be century coincided with the first into expr s the meceing. emergence of the: embryonic British bourgeoisie. women Chaucer, the first major poet Instead. as language English is the product o male. in Engish was a prime product of this new social class (and like theologians, Malt lansators English poets that male lexicographers, male ideol- IlUSt UliCI ogists, mpol srans, male spring to mind, a man). professors, From its very 'first days, zialsdids therefore, the English language and successive male-dominated social orders. developed, oeen' delned, And development expanded and refined largely by has hand in mèn for men gone hand the development of capitalism: This has created conditions the where. as Dale Spender Tne TISe polnts Enelity anguone to socia coup- ithe amd the te noie is tability English: and the feminine amongst cofsistently regarded as 'nega- rrench and Latin i the• 14th

SOCIALISM

This book is a symptom towards smueness. of 'the major changes which Becauße aiso, noweve. taking in. the they may profess VEre place Ivolutlal y labour „ecves „ d ov «Oolc-vi• for in relation to that dismal expression among many of a period-they to explain search by disillu- growing the cynicism why altcu sioned but not totally reaction of the Labour govern.

thev failed to present a demoralised socialists for a revolutionary alternative socialism in our

•KO FELO EO

cretio t enougl lifetime. masses of workers to it. The disillusion, of course, is Failed policies the policies implemented in the last two decades in the. name of socialism by eleven This book helps to lay bare wasted years of Labour govern- the the Iated policies of menls WnoSt cvnical leaders Labour governments; ano over only paved the way to Heath, detailed evidence to Thatcher, and mass unemploy- Wilson's, Callaghan's ment: and indeed Benn's "socialism' Most of those whọ had to benefit the Laiedso onen working class and ended up as somelung : t0 •**fol

TRIS

totay iey write, nad tiu sions to judge from an apendaze to the needs of the the way they big cavitalsls Labour alla inls is all' documentea in relation to the National Enter- Part of what the book does prise Board, the treatment is to document great detail In

WOINVIS

Coosclalyys. oralitng the Labour government's indus.

agreements and government they affected financial aid to industry trial poncies; as firms in Coventry, Tynèside and The inquiry rejects not only Merseyside, to show how those the SicruC dild illusions were shattered.

policies Wilson and or mne Callaghan governments but also unose uno caima to nae no should welcome the whole socialismn Tusione conclusion this being nationalisation

ULUS

should resist ant tento allol Lord NoBeIs. John Lister reviews Dale Spender's "Man Made Language" (Routledge, £4.95) 100

AGOH ONT

CIGWO

"The grip of brotherhood" also extends to daily language tive' relation to the grated-oftep by sexually. masculine. debased meanings: among them lady, "The semantic governess cle WalCI been responsible for the courtesan, madam, mistress, has queen. manifestation of sexism in the Most professional, titles are language can be simply stated: there are fundamenta automaueauy consare• as mae male unless prefixed with the qualifi- catte. To be linked wit male is 1156а cation "female" "woman" linked with a range of doctor. writer. etc To De underlines the dis. meainto bechared to mamo Spender good: appearance of women's names

LU HILIU

linked to male is I0 1P0 SP AR PI SOAR Moo mT absence of these qualities .

submergence women's tne Spender, p.23 identity And She she examines the pröblems for points to string descriptive wors m waca ae wowten di exoressmne macmselve temale variant has become deni- in a language which systematic- BOB SUTCLIFFE reviews "State Intervention in Industry", a workers inquiry by Coventry, Liverpool, and. North Tyneside Newcastle Trades Councils, Price £2.00.

One their principal Second, the report w7hte searching tall workly alas tad concerns

• IOT

an fight working class and its allies allenalve 10] authentic workers' control and to form its own organisations of democracy. strucge it is much too aot i think in terms of what to do The report, therefore, with closely connected with the fight existing organisations for the democratisation of the

SUAIL WILE

Labour Party r and in an import. purpose for which organisation is required and then propose the links that fight dult way.

WILI

•kind of the shop floor struegles of the aDolubIlalt oldsd- working class over jobs and tions workine conditions. Third, the report, reflecting The authors in fact appeal source, glorify both shop stewards and IoI polltics to be no longer leIt the politicians but for «Many sarades Colneis. Shot participate directly stewards and trades councils are workers to to the fight for their Liotel orrarisalluls trades Tares untons. councls ucinoridl shop. stewards committees and nl l suncde danst Cowa- ists, the Tory government and so on. • Labour leadership So all that is positive and to would be more realistic if it acknowledeed that welcomed mas nasurl book The welcome. must be modified, however, by a number gave some examples from the struggles which it otherwise ui cuces. cescuoe ln so muen nera. Colourless Finally, the .book. strèsses organisations much more than First of all, the book will its Dulcic communicate 1 beca use or phe chaptes foI needs defensive and offensive struggle could than• because oi the workine class colouless

SLVIC M WRCO I S

If its important written. An absence of stylistic toibe biol gimmicks is all very Labour's failures is to buil 150 pages without a single meta- de top then it will bè crucial single joke is hard detail

PILUL

poncic ending of COle. Ieraulng to ally, degrades them or ignores them. Spender undermines some old - myths-in particular the "theories" designed to show en are se o langure that IToM women nature assertive" than. men and thi that women tak more

LOLOI

thạn men. much reality .of the research quesuols favour Itce 1 sex-biasea 11 "the male as norm". In a' serie of experiments of who Cussi01s spoke women and dominated the dis- cussion. Many the mannerisms uscu as examels or womct s "inferior" • language simply reflect the oppressed position of women in society. In Chapter 5 - Language and Reality: Who Made the World?'

intriguing -comes ar "man' " and the use oi th • L11l ne to meme tunde race Spender traces the develop- this ment 16th Century to the present day

AE TONO

acteon or imaer thạt in practice the term man generany ungersooa mov d referring equally to both sexes but as referring specifitally to the male of the species. Women writers Spender also has an interest- ing chapter on women writers- mnet emente . in penetratin! a preserve so heavily dominațer and the fürther attacks and denigration that illally hes ol (male) critics and publishers Her book is challenging, . It is enlightening But respects it is also pretty awful arguments. The

VOTOV

amed in toat asud nae bean in half as many words. And the space saved cond use fully have been devoted expati the to iorg vig and of exper- wortne-tif areas ience and concern which are not for catered English, and the attempts which feminists have made to fill these gaps In addition a number of the that examples of zilel , ' ceem „vert weak. And ieason Benn business secrets (an important obstacle to the workers in every was uscussce WOrK NERET occupations and so on. On tất hin thế) report as it stands is vazuc Icuicclll It is also important for there to be more thought within the labour movement about how to

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production by the combine from the world-famous oro vardlua ucvice wuch luno" agitational . o a • concrete weapon in the fight for workers' control production , and . SUvlals SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 co bender mcmdes ae aecomten ludicrous about woman who wore herself out b all night every night syst un тo vit ner mirin eirers ror re husband each morning-scarcely typical case of the oppression oi women But most overriding The limitation of the book is its non materialist, feminist analysis of the development of language.

_ Bible It contains a remarkably silly the lan SECLIOl

SOANI

Bibie-ignorine the fact that Chris completely tianity itself (along ever other form oi religion) ies and perpetuates oppres- sion of women. And : pins its main hopes for in the development 'consciousness . 01 •groups of the feminist suvillvsll While • the appeal of such ortorelle class women is better explained by Spender than in many other she still fails to offe auvounls.

WELCI

womend ane actually take steps end conditions that man$ academics who intelectud

HOVE

towards radical politics , Spende1 ideas and ideology and the consciousness primars ISSUeS O cononied. • ne the fight against oppression being some kind of grand teach- in in which the oppressors are contoner minedte lecturé. She fails to recognise that and ideology flow from ideas maLcEk Conat ors • Lbäk b the material world of oppression which leads to sexist language and not vice versa and again language is Agall ate cen as a conco ol by men to keep women in thei place of course would be rew Suror enougr to cen tiRI DoT '16th century lexicographers and 19th eentury •grammarians that a woman's place was in the the appendage of a nome as man But theu use of language flows not from this as a DUT On preconception, one of the body of assumptions from which they approached the task of develop ing the overall ideology of th •bruisn bourgeolsle For the bourgeoisie today, as in its earliest period of f forma. tion, SuDULULaLOl subordinate omen is aer a part of the struggle to uphold the values of private property, .ownersmip and expioltation Io.

profit. In other words the material and psychological oppression of women .is for bourgeoisie toda mateial etalipaion of thei materia exploitation the working class this material situatior has found its more or less direc reflection in theeam stical and s °* bourgeois legality Icicon bourgeois philosophy -both in it. language literary and its dauy use No control Working class men therefore are in a sense as excluded from languagę as are women They did the •Crede language: have no control une over it; their oppression and exploitation are concealed and in siluitancously part prolonged by it While we must recognise the problems and inadequacies 3 ang age, or siot the English expression

TINC

mean. adequate for the experience of women and the : oppressed must be part of our fight to break the monopoly hold exercised by the bourgeoisie over of means production, and • caucanon propaganda There is no literary answel to th mad ean of e igh as a made language" only a reromnonmy answer • Dale Spender points to problemt-but socialis only can show us how to put it right.

Why we must fight SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 Tories' racist Bill The British Nationality be one of the leading Labour spokespeople. Bill is an immense and com- Socialist Press with plicated document, 62 pages agrees much of wilal sulli sucy. say long. We are printing here doult we ce an interview given to Social- despite be lever ThaT improvements. Labour's Press by John Tilley, immigration policy has yet fully MP Labour for Lambeth thrown Central, of the and one nature it has shown in the bast experts on this racialist and will soon print a review we Labour's Citizenship and sexist measure which the Immigration document. Thatcher government has Meanwhile John Wiley here introduced. clear guide to provides a very of the Bill on The Bil has now entered its the labour Committee stage in the House of Commons and will be inten- be much more informed in order to take up an ively discussed there for at least effective fight against it.

Labour Party the Inal the main changes What should be in any way proud of which the Bill will bring about And, course. the Labour in the law? policy now is a long way Party think the purpose of the away from the Green Paper.

replace The ar What categories of people will Nationality for two main be most affected if first, that Act gave I vasuld. Bill the the

DIUVIDIOLLD

hroughout the British Empire become awa one single citizenship. -of the think there are two that question. United Kingdom and Colonies pproache one is what This all seeks to do 1 give a clear British citizen- everyone in Britain is going to ship to people connected with badly affected because the harm going to race Britain and separate citizenships Those colonies and those people who terms tne instices in many ways the done particular sort groups individuals, there are really empire, the East categories I would pick Aurican asians wno are suardca at the moment, not able to get o" First of all, as I said, some into Bat ins That children born in Britain will not the first major change in the law. be British because their parents and Ine second major objective were not l of the Bill is to recognise that ently settled here. That means the 1948 Act has been amended who the children of students sometnine 4U since are nere.

WOIK

then and has made nationality permits, people who are law a mess declared to be illegal immigrants though be The major amendments, of may are the 1962, 1968 and declared illegal entrants course. y vals after they came in. ACTS WAlCO restricted the pars people Those children in many vasto parts particularly black dilu 1s a verv compicate brocere for them to acquire nationality ocodie nom une emone dna tre Commonwealth from coming and I that many of them into Britain fail do 41 c We in the Labour Party sup- Making children born port the idea that there should reason new Britain

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This States

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this Act is rely at here that- time in British history is a major injustice in terms of individuals.

Act is really another. Immi- The second group who miss Craton

ACT

mch bolsters the racism and sexism of earlier out Commonwealth the without providing a good citizens-people who largely from the black Common- basis lor nanonally. have a near under There some proposals existing British law to register as the Labour gover rnment. Bo pass tests fothy donation, does the Tory Bill differ

HOW

pass tests naturalisation, TO ROSe! nave an aulomant won to government citizenship when they

ATITINE

Green Paper was a apply for it document which aired a lot of Those people will only • have POssibleed about une that Iight for a couple of years

ACT. I

ane its renew Thouont. more ano then it will be gone and many groups did, that some of those possibilities were racist, And the third group-and I suppose inis is the worst oi all- Some of the worst aspects of are the East African Asians. the Green have been Something like 70,000 who dropped such the possibility Last now have gone to India. be allowed. But the

MULLET

Tories have also things put their countries which weren't the promiscu. Paper. that if they kent their British *as Bash citie we are not detending the Green Paper. Even though could stay discussion and that they could соси- have ment, I don't think it is some- right of entry into Britain. That right, of course, was taken away in 1968 by government passed Bill does is to take well away the passport because they will become some thing called British Citizens, which means they will no rights at all-no right UI Cly thev can't transmit it to walere: their children, and their children in some cases will become state- less Take the example of Malawi: an East African Asian family Kill coes into aw wine cae.

less because this Bill says quite clearly that a child must order to be a Malawi citizen.

Those people they will are now their children stateless. and 1 veneve laat unis is a preliminary to the lories usin even limited entry voucher system under which small numbers of East Airican Asians into the country now. Also among those who hard Darnculary group are those who went to lot of them wcut 1n012 when unev were criven out of East Africa i mainly through the activities Amin) on the basis of a promise moat mer wore somernme allowed into Britain. I pick out those three but are There

OLS

I other groups all over the world who suffer well but those are I think the worst hit. Raison That supports said earlier on about the Bill being racist. You also said it perpet the dales

SCA SI

willl was l the Green Paper. In what sense is it sexist? It's very interesting because Tories the It Is sexist. we acknowieage inat HE BACT Karal

THIS

RONGER

DIAPERMEN

THE BIE NAILA WORT

DAMANGE THE GEOL,

TRACE RELATIN

shich exered before mination sexual discrimination the child would have been state- less, because they couldn't pass citizenship their D1L-L0l now naturalised or woman •CaT

TEARSMIE

They were only citizenship by descent abroad.

registered other group that would it all the but unal makes have lost out that 1s Asian worse that the Bill actually worder because mere is a per maroonces _a new fectly understandable tradition among young Asian women field go home to their home village present a non-citizen tilt Water marries a citizen man has

WHIC

Ter Tirst Colo is cue Smov a automatic I understand it, to be with their right become British mothers-a perfectly normal, citizen indeed international. tendency Now she would have to wait But if those women had only for three years before she could been registered • British apply for British citizenship. citizens then if their kids were The Tories say. that that brings line if they only going to removes alcrimination there a few months, then those because men at the moment have to five years. We been wait : say cancel rave •British citizens. taking that from Timills awas That point which we womens noon or progres has hammered hard, been would unacceptable even if they did have equality conceded totally by the govern elsewhere -which they clearly ment ne now czech descent is irrespective of how don't. the parent acquired citizenship Anoiner way In wnich tne Bill maintains a sexist bias is those children wil now be that illegitimate children will ful British citizens citizenship The other sayssiont it a through the mother. minor one. says that Foreign women for example because he or she was born in chleten country-if those women are Britain to parents not legally oi legally permanently permanently settled then, when the man. the that child reaches the age of ten, seluca -wicuie if he or she had lived contin fledged British citizen will do no -ously in with onl this countr establishing citizenship for that child on dose ten very the child would then sense r perpetuate the burden of illegitimacy which have the right to citizenship inevitably is by that's a concession, mother as well as by the child but 1l S very minor one because becales that a chid would haye there ation. to pass to qualify. What were the concessions which were made by Whitelaw other week and do they have any significance? Yes, One do major one ana an abso lie one. Previously the said that citizenship aoroad. cone onl be transmitted by a citizen who was born in this country citizen was naturalised or registered What that meant was simply this: if say a British couple were born in Britain i and went to a sas and had a child that Be elite child would British. born in trinidad let as overn couple who were Whitelaw had com registered as traind had hs, by been registered What do you think is the overall political objective of their parents. baid taxes here, obeyed the laws here and so on, that is had been sul staking Concession tore How much they British citizens racialis couple their right as well a Market

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COURS

101 example and had had a child, I think they are. Obviously Page 7 Angry picket of Timothy Raison in Rochdale last month it's difficult to know how far this has been thought out by individual Tories; but there's no cout that petore the Genera Election when they were elected they promised a whole shoppin of racialist measures. partic LISt Leicester speech in 1978.

And partly as a result of that, partly result as Thatcher's remarks 'swamping', they got a big slice of what you might call the racialist vote. I think that con- Trouted to une decime or ene National Front vote. I don't think people stoppec hem voted Tory. the Tories Then one one feel electorally that they have to keep that assuaging group. the possibility How do vou of opposing the bill, both inside and outside Parliament? Obviously, the first thing we had to do was to straighten out

LADONAY

supported Labour government policies on these issues in the We have had to make i clear, as we have done, that we think the Act was mistake. and that it was racial. ist; and, as I've said earlier, that there were lots of mistakes in the Green Paper So at NEC level the Labour Party have during the last year been trying to out a nammer policy which we have se out in a paper called Citizen ship Immigration largely tallies with what I have saying-particularly the • of fair citizenship beins Dass the basis of a fair immigration policy, rather than the complete reverse of that think ine. ker opposing this Bill doesn't actualiy lie in the House Commons. It. lies in the com munity at large particularly black political groups, civil liberties groups and soups the women's movement

ALSO

Were see that there rece there Bill. The pressure's got to be kept up all the time, partly because living start amazed to get a major conces- sion before the committee stage That shows that the pressure has well as at national leve I think we've established the Labour Party's credibility -I put it no higher than that-there was pare dared that are We have early in terms • Sa how black groups and indeed the labour movement as a whole, sees us on this issue But we alone going convince the Tories to chanze it

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Page 8 "It is one thing to take the reins of office. It is quite another to impose the defeats on the working class that are necessary to make Lory poucies suck. The Tories remember all vividly workers' too how to fight readiness every attack on their trade unions and living standards led in 1974 to the premature fall of the Heath government. Callaghan was in turn forced into the 1979 election with his policy of wage controls to by the massive pay struggles 11 both private industry and the public sector." She elet Pressesses, Meny f the election results, May 1979. Thatcher's undignified collapse last week in front of an unofficial strike of coal miners nas now made assessinent take zi months to happen!

But why did it The reality the Tory office not by any retreat or weakness of the class, but as a result of the historic crisis of the working class-une crist of fee ears Callaghan and For five years Healey had implemented

DULLICS.

They had set the precedent for each of the class measures contained in the

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union laws; racist immigration laws; social service cuts; reduc- ing the value oi wages; running down mate coNne nationes and e policies lost them the them policies 1979 election. The Tories therefore had a start Commons flying. majority of 43 to back it up.

Confrontation 1 natcher took power as a of confrontation government with an openly declared plan of action designed to hit the work- ing class at every lever, mcrease the rate of exploitation and re- establish unchallenged power of the employers. trade Ine reonse ol union leaders to this was mien tendito phi back from Tory open even the level of struggle had mounted against the Labour government. No resistance was offered to the wave of Tory attacks.

policy "A strict monetarist which was to trigger the whole- ale rundown manufacturing industry in Britain. in the public

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*A massive affecting particularly women them the workers, tying home and ine ourcen back onto the family; *Anti-union legislation drafted to hamstring the power of the unions. Tax concessions Thatcher this justitied problem of the SaY LIP Britain is a West German stan- dard of living on a Panamanian economy." same time Thatcher strengthened the class base of her TaX con the middle class and increases to the army, nuge pay the luciciary management nationalised industries. Only five weeks after the election

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and introduced

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budget which increased irom 8 to 13% and introduced increased local authority rates, series measutes increased ta price tillily Lalsvil more than doubled prescription charges; increasec Ene cost of dental treatment and put up the cost of mortgages, bank and the petrol. As a result inflation rose to

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over zulo. but no resistance wa: offered by the trade union Thatcher class example to the ruling the hard pressed capitalist world of a stable hard line government learly and openly representing interests of the ruling clas Lne in Britain. anyone doubted the com- plicity the trade union with enters only had to look at events in BL Michael Edwardes and Thatcher's ideal manage her mouthpiece industry, in announced the closure plants and the crappin 25,000 IOUS: Dut tIlt

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the supported Рут the plan; argued in favour of it policy correct section of the working class resistance to it in counterc ally acton but me suke rae tae the BL workforce. potential to spread and to bring the Tories down. Thatcher Edwardes trade quickly on this, and • policies of the capitalised Derek Robinson to union leaders saved i natcher sacked tere head bad do to BL initiate a new offensive against strike from the shop stewards' movement.

TUC squashed a general strike Steel workers in Wales in defence of jobs; and dock delegates voted for a strike Thatcher moved quickly to a steel the workers were sent. back to work massive It the steel workers had whilst steel ponse from the steel workers.

workers was the line offer, BSC was free to proceed She wanted to defeat a major with massive job cuts and plant closures The Workers Socialist League saw these events as that the real possibility existed to bring the Tories down in this winter's pay round. anaTener. nowever SaW things differently. At the Tory Party conference she boldly claimed that nothing deflect the . Tories course or stop then achieving

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ABORTION AND POSITIVE LEGISLATION

NAC/LARC Labour Movement Conference

LONDON MARCH 14 1981

Details and registration from • NAC/LARC, TUC Liaison Committee c/o 374 Grays Inn Road, London WC1 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 By Bill Peters the challenge come in BL The implications of the miners' victorv are far reaching of hotta at Appa led bas lilalene. ment into disarray in the face of an unofficial strike As a shamefaced John Biffer -once Thatcher's high priest of weekend: "What we have seen demon strated Uve we have long something which known-and that is the capacity of certain sections of organised extra-parla mentary authony. He admitted that other sec.

tions of workers had the miners ability to force the governmen Appears that water workers water workers are following the example e of the their pay ancashir demands. and voted to strike tron tomorrow morning against the employers' 10% ofter Such action could well force the pace union • OI Wednesday who meet on discuss the after : the overwhelming 32,000 manua workers. What then, stands in our Winter of Discontent supper face such action Prior's anti-unior it might. But I preter to believi Employment Act was powerless : certain lessons have been that to hold workers back learned from experience: that This is the lesson that must we are coming slowly, painfully be taken into Autumn of Understan Sonan ling on age, leal movement. Workers ing. I hope it will be followed closures a Winter of Commonsense isn't, we shall not be autno. workers ana tenant diverter

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out contse struggle agains Heseltine's must follo the path of catch mapped struggle out the by phrase There chance is a real one mud to say That divided I natche You turn if you want to: the government can be brought Lady's NOT for turning down fact the winter started In the wake of their humili with a victory for Thatcher. BL ation they workers were cynically betrayed Thatcher's economic for whizzkid Walters has opposed strike action the government's line on the caolansee ThIs an InITO- strength duced their 6% wage limit for hinted enigmatically aP tatica House Frances local authority government WOlKCIS. turns"; Lord Thorneycroft has Again, many of the union joined the ranks re of

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leaders

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doubters; and ex-Minister local settled John Stevas ha St. Nolan autnerily manual workes. bur stepped Thatcher's extremist in the docks jobs were saved by the threat of a national official lin with Geoffrey dock strike. back benchers. and other It is against this background Institute of Directors that the Tories were defeated br taking

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the miners last week. The too soft a line with the miners strength the class working The Tories are divided; the which had potentiall emerged they vulnerable; existed ine beginning 0I must be brought down. And the the Thatcher government. working class has shown it has the strength to do it. Edwardes The a parently stron government dolle a the steel CND Labour Movement

CONFERENCE

WORe nave spread or strike had been Thatcher had been confronter

AGAINST THE

by other sections of the work

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In class al all carrel slake.

have Wolle collapsed in a similar way had Saturday March 28. at UMIST Students' Union, Manchester. Up to 2 delegates from labour movement bodies. Details and credentials from;

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 February 1981 Campaign for conference As struggles erupt against tenants' rent and rate increases and

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sicwaLus, campaigners nursery cuts in local government speaker from and in the after- services, of the raid which math ence, broke up the three-month the political Longworth occupation at recent and current struggles.

a discussion on Hospital, Way action to fight the provide The strengthened cuts is particularly appro- action to build on priate.

CULS

The conference launched for November and January March L1 Jolly by Labour Movement and sofia sa Democracy une delegates designed to offer a Organiser 1S and 750 for the unwaged. Irans• forum for discussion on precise.

po cres ae will be provi creche the ponucal questions tackled the conference. mounting all-out action, to halt we and to 11gnt Tabour councilors engaged from their in anti-cuts struggles in London, Labour Parties. Midlands and the North, the Conference Policies to stop the cuts Called jointly by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement and Socialist Organiser Saturday March 21 10.30 a.m. -5.00p.m. Islington Central Library, Holloway Rd.

London N7 Details and credentials from: SO/CDLM Cuts Conference, c/o 66 Brokesley Street, London E3 way forward in the fight against the cuts in Camden.

What conditions prompted you on those to printe on pare 40 statement tendency reached a point in Us a flavo the about you wacie ult •broken down. who wil Labour Group has always tried find some kind of unity But the much face of the Tories. ever Tories would be policies now being put forward are so anti-working class Inal the cliff. on the left simply cannot those vote for them. sections of the Auditor ment struggle against council What course They are being carried not struggle taking? necessarily because those on the Party centre but bècause support well, that the left the the external unreal against the District Auditor and the courts.

levels in So on their part it is a matter of self protection and expedien- in local gis moment. We cannot There is now no middle was task of drawing up principle move to the leader- and there is no ship's position maniterto are going to support way tney government's us. There is a split which has to their reactionary The statement workers. be made public. reflects that and must now be used to organise around. think this What impact do such it in the Labour As stand will have the Party? involve I hope that the three CLPs in neme torced into reaffirm their Camden of the will support for Camden Labour Party Borough Conference and call on the rest of the Group to support it any of the Labour Parties will go so far as to call the process national With their leaders NUT militants, direct works on officials due to meet Wednesday February 25, it clear that heavi the majority of Britain's 32,000 will be among the speakers in the confer- manual workers in the water voted for conica reek to raw have industry lessons rejection of the employers' second, 10% pay offer. it is hoped to campaign for the gains of Ansells convened bet as l m €1.50 for and employed workers bitter areas. will be provided at readers to attend, jobs

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deed mon trade unions and fight Ansells workers fighting •of the proposed closure their brewery have won the support of TGWU-organised managers representing pub West 50% of Ansells Midlands landlords. have agreed The to black supplies of by Allied than that procuced Breweries-the combine TAcT owns Ansells. TGWU the dives the :opportunity to foret Ene bact which Breweries vuleilla produc- rationalise tion expense ot 1.000 tne jobs in Birmingham. are already outside have sought "rogue" pubs which outside supplies ot beer in orde!

to keep going. "We cannot vote for these policies" Graham Shurety interviews Camden councillor and supporter of Camden Labour Left Phyl Turner about the statement he signed with nine other Camden councillors and the who don't support it This must As tion. change. to stand down is hard to say- regards the struggle of tenants is always in a crisis like against the Council's rent and away rat and ate sees i raise to these from the implications of such a fight over leadership positions will be a lot of people ise and sustain. ve neith once Lne Camden Council had caved in against Heath's Housing Finance and for God's sake don't go over Act. onlv a handful oi tenants were prepared to put their live- lihoods in jeopardy and remem- In the statement vou call on all ber, unless there is a strong mass Tenants movemell. support you in the individuals are placing Ten. policy. selves at risk This was the situ- ation in 1972 when the Council do you Set itself was saying we wil not As well as pulling the Labour Tie it not that you ase behind us it is important though non payment. right wing at party policy have been forced I am chair- the Bill." That will not be the and position today. the Patis Fluid situation policy on finance for next year's council election manifesto. That The position of the unions is challenge the very confused at the moment. I

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right impose honestly don't know policies on outcome of their present post will be. It appears to be a very to sis don. Risk national leadership tot looks though The

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will inevitably has undermined the possibilty risk of councillors of a five Back. we get to the point where at early con NUPE rejects the Council's pro- frontation with the government.

a major Pt is imposed on the work once scheme and producuvity role in determining what sort the head of the union there in May 1982. over confrontation well be Up until now there has been could little participation of the left in between the NUPE membership formula- and the Council. of policy Will leaders call water strike? that they But despite this clear man- date for strike action there and by officials regional action

GMWU,

and IGWU may. stall on an all out stoppage.

miners, walt They have issued anguished placed through the next defeat of the pleas the the offer prior improve own leaders Wednesday's meeting. way of such an outcome speculation And Paisley rent strike whirlwind week's by the miners a number of A MASS meeting of 1,000 questions are tenants Paisley asked. voted launch a rent 28 March • Abour controle. the struggle announced rent increases pressed home until the 50%—way agreement amount demanded by Heseltine and in Yorkshire and elsewhere and the Tory government. many others Elsewhere in Scotland conduct of Yorkshire Presiden!

There Arthur Scargill. moves while Dunbarton and irvine Dundee the Labour Council Shuckla Trom standing ticinisessite

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mixed feelings within the coal council houses-despite growing threats of legal action.

fields: hacked off is in the face oi the

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threat of because all railways, and so on, were behind

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us. 240 occupation

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by which brought women machinists at the vanit But they Fair (Lee Jeans) textile plant in other secuons third now Greenock is on the miners. week. . Only two government said it was The women, members of the Garment Workers Tailor the Nana die the closure are fighting now they've come in Unlol or the mart. ney wave ocove some financial Clyde shipbuilding Lower workers-but still need practical got other which should and cash sudgort, be sent to Ellen avionachan, Cambridge Road, Greenock.

played? date for a strike, while the TUC seems comes TroN Council. Tucked Miscellaneous', it declares General orind DOWi ment and It's UCATT's position which to socialist policies. most damaging If the a take-up Council don't get i ne (which voluntary Tennualy tabled the by given the ludicrous terms they under offering, they won't do) alc be a hell of a there are going to section. nis calls. around sitting of bloke.

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doing then for but the moment, however refusal of UCATT's rank the to support leadership Ille much weakens the opposition to Shav (Camden's Labour Council leader) and Co. I hope that t the UCATT mass meeting on Wed- nesday changes stewards' them into brings DOSILION all united opposition. I hone I haven't sounded defeatist identifying What these Rates problems. group or councilors if of course a stand publicly take stand publicly rent strikes, could done Trial sub (UK). carole. veron Six issues.: if we were to do that we have of the labour the Six months movement One year.. We have to give a lead, we to discuss have yet political position we should take Europe: Six months. into the rate Ilxing meelux on March That position must out of discussions with Rest of world: friends Ike the Camder six months. In the end I don't think we can avoid going out or Page 9

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The fight for democracy in the Labour Party Speakers might try to diffuse John Bloxham, organiser of spit the mitancy of th calling Rank and File Mobilising Committee and aftermath of the 'Alan Thornett, WSL workers are Friday 6 March at 7.30 pm Waltham Club Norfolk St Only their off Beverley Road, Hull stand in the Where was Scargill? In the aftermath of last struggle being still € Many miners plainly felt that have been forthcoming: Socialist Press spoke to Steve Main Mark lam who clearly refleoted the "The only reason the Tories Scargill out-making into were all like steel scabs shouldn't have Gone back reil ve had witten It might have been a spark : Scargill saying the government beat should have defied the 15-8 vott on the Executive and instructed take first-then Yorkshire miners to come out?

weeks the "Ye : voted witl our teet, as did other areas. Wi out after the government NCB-but because wanted climbdown It demonstrates the strength ther make SuT! of the miners: and the unimpor- return to Work will Cast nol agreements tance of large stocks of coal 1 Scargill sold us out. If he was secTions any sort of socialist the wouldn't wonker behind has Scaril save

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stand alone. the way I see it. "None! He had an 86% man- other areas from Other people kept may see it differently. Welsh miners

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programme pursued vigorously ONE MOTION the scottist i reluctant to debate by next govern ment." • races away at The end of the list under the heading

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a successful "This Conaress instructs the fight to keep Fosse Road Day STUC to initiate a campaigr for Strike, in to Nursery open, Nursery Campaign now Tor its attention on the focussing … ren ace wIT government committed Nurser! Real Highfields which is threatened with closure • want to campaign is in an early The separate this motion from tha

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expulsion or the wang ol Ihree their supporters from Labour Party for a proscu wo campaign Strike bring down FooLs sve or fretore and leadership are very different from those of Callaghan. Friday for instance he addressed of 600 workers at Linwood, industrial movement the Tories" But he made it quite clear that he sees Thatcher remaining ent or ner term-offering Talbot workers only "victories" hopes of Over the government in the month ane vears to comed Behind the facade of arm- oratorical flourishes and designed secure his base of suoport. Foot putting forward simply the same wretched of Callaghan before him. Mass action to detend jobs at topple the fores will come-like last miners" Foot and his shadow cabinet co likes. construct a political leadership that is capable of mobilising and SUCIl next period. Foot

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Nobody can have been more relieved at last week's Tory climbdown the miners than Labour leader Michael Foot. The miners' strike must have of the most been ing developments in his political tide or class struggle driving ting tide of class struggle Thatcher government headed by Michae Foot! Wracked by crisis With workers throughout the country clamouring for alterna- Tive colicies mass unemployment, plunging living social Foot service cuts, have been wrecker Crisis from its first day in office.

He is painfully aware that he nas meet The needs the working class- since he, like Callaghan milit, sees lie lask or a Labour government as more managing a bankrupt capitalist also he knows

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already activists Lavour repetition the betrayals of the Labou Within the fight for accountability and party democracy. Defeats Buffeted by successive defeats and weakened defection of the Gang of Three unel once son. and the right wing of neatev the TUC have only just begun to cobble together the basis Hont to reverse democratic Backoool Wembley and restore their authority Had they been catapulted into office next

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weeks unev woute nave been caught with their political trousers down. a breatning space. And tnere is every sign that the new-laugh- ably _ "Labour Solid arity

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use every available minute to press home their underhand campaign. Central to their demands is a reversal Of the electoral college Party leader and a dilution of Party and a dilution reselection to aroccoures Tribunites A number of the now hope- lessly divided Tribune Group have lent their support to netarious campaign, which will exploit every available bureau- cratic trick and sneaky manoeu- in oroer to twant Ine wisnes of Labour Party activists.

It is clear that in the period ahead it those We dave •ecces to stay in lie rarty: and Tight-using the Militant group as a stalking horse in their witch-hunt agains Puhlished hv Holrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League. KM BOx DY. London WOrN SaA. runtea Da Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League.

arm for battle Leading anti-democrats: Hattersley and Healey But the left-rather than the isolated meanwhile the Labour Party itself, of Three Jang who pose chief danger to the labour move- boltical co-linkers orme cou have remained behind as 'moles' to maintain the struggle against virtually every socialist policies. Council This underlines the necessity themselves ostracised by Laboul to step up the work or the hank activists as they rush pell mell and File Mobilising Committee into the soggy of the for Labour Democracy (and the second string capitalists in the canvalon. Have . helpea tip ine balance towards New stage in fight to save Longworth The threat of a resumed they intended to go over th of COHSE t send occupation Longworth at Planning Team meet Long Hospital hangs the UvCI worth staff-effectively Oxford Area heads of the drawing recognition from the Health Authority this week.

union. savage A Bad aftermath mach sat had

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the hospital four patients from and closed down the top floor, the staff have temporarily sus ph ad thei three-month hour picketing. these ing that policies be

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imposed at the of a further attack on the hospita

SECUPAT

Although the staff had voted occupakot immediately after the raid, the inaction of COHSE had A section meeting was called national left discuss situation-at when win lute concerce na they would receive the kind of with no which Brook proposed that they advance warning, supporting action • That Lie Work. need to reopen the top floor.

talks with the And instead of "without duress' working to majority . of the small strengthen stali in ine wake the raid official Ernie Brook meeting felt that there was no proceeded with negotiations Occupation alternative-but

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tne di before the AHA moves again to Benedicts Hospital occupation in London formed a vocal lobby attack the hospital Campaign room ol Uxiora Labour tarty on It February to back an emergenc resolutio from Clements The closed top floor has ward calling for th expulsio: campaign Party Lady been …net 161 t committee room as the struggle McCarthy. McCarthy goes on. vice-chair Oxford CLP. But she Messages of support, dona- hous, arc., snoua oe lorwarded before to: Myra Bungay, Oxford AHA-and thus directly 13 Bowbank, Longworth, Oxon.

responsible for the smashing o the the stated policy of Oxford GC and the use of police against the labour movement. Meanwhile Oxford McCarthy's are continu- event ing withhold cronies who run the the

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behind GC Chairmar from in which Conboy refused against the wa NUPE drivers were manipulate even amne propose! management into crossing explain why the motion should Longworth