Socialist Press no. 244

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 244 * April 23 1981 * 20p Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Delhi, Derry. Brixton Mrs The veil that Thatcher donned for her with King banquet Khalid of Saudi Arabia should become standard her entire wear cabinet. Certainly some effec- tive disguise is now advisable wherever and whenever the organisers of the Tory offen- sive come lace to lace with the workers they oppress.

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showing net adaptaumby eu the feudal practices of the Gulf States, most oppressed victims of British class rule were showing they are capable of shaking her government. Derry nationalist been in action workers ave against the British army; in Brixton the black youth pre- close their next Dare 1101 encounter with the SPG. Delhi Thatcher finds here government's Nation- TaCIS. Bill her ality nas aoggeu footsteps. Cringing

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While the British cringingly offers Batest appeal for 'U turn', the exploited hit the

MOSE

Thatcher victims government throw them. into direct action selves arainst its army and pollce shock troops. These workers streets to show their hatred young have more effect with their for the imperialists who are anger, their bricks and petrol leaving Sands to die in the bombs than all Len Murray's H Blocks. bootlicking words. The army has responded who wish to It is those in its time-worn restrict the struggle, not Derry youth aves advocate bold who critically injured after

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policies who are out of step of by one

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with the mass movement bullets fired into one group In Ireland the impact of of demonstators. Bobby election has Two other Derry produced the biggest demon- murdered lie dead, strations against British rule who army since 1972. Land Rover at high After 11 years of struggle into a crowd of youth who nationalist population the only armed were has shown it is not bowed or stones. beaten by one of the most fung into the alth The security" cam-

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paigns ever mounted against reversed Rover Then a Triads election has given one ot them died soon afterwards. workers-predominantly Cynically the RUC listed confidence to tone seLL these war casuallies come back

OTTO

SOCIALIST

TORIES

SHAKEN

BY WORKERS

REVOLT

idual policemen. Tallick Thatcher's people before the riot Star' The vicious they have are effect by ine an accident. Youth on the streets in Derry victims of a toad accident'!

organic link neres dil ne of enth Cd the black Derry and the black the youth youth of Brixton. the disposal Neither are offered any way. One community 'official' organising hospital tocu

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bene patrols. weapons fight with 100 plastic hatred with not nane and born out of years of oppres sion and harassment In Brixton now the socio- logists and peddlars of quack speed drove cures have moved in in force.

youth The Scarman nOUl launched by the government with It is a paracular tony• driven back Scarman who was called were to Belfast in alice vilence Land •to invesugalt back His report was used then strike to inrow tne

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today-to -as class

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action to questions of indiv- reduce Wildl was army in Derry. idual 'crimes' (on the part of the black youth) or possibly 'errors' on the part of indiv- TUC chief Murray The fact is that the spark for Brixton was not this or that incident but Operation 81-presumaoly honour racist Brixton Murder of the most kind being savage which was itself a pretaste carried out in our name- of a London-wide Operation by the British govern- techniques the conniv- with the earned 01 ance of the leaders of the streets of Derry and Belfast the Baput British labour movement. now Bobby Sands, a republic- state forces on the streets of war has been an prisoner of days police harassment demanding recognition of his faced by the youth of Brix political status as a prisoner ton is not an abberation or opposition to ailed for his It is part and parcel of Indeed between the time The onslaught. danger for the youth now is Socialist ron Morary ame atre on Theate on Tenewed violence'-but the timid reformists who try could well nave alca to divert their struggle into Nobody seriously denies appeals for sports halls anc civil war that there neighbourhood bobbies in the against Fritish rule movement occupied six should applaud the action of Ireland -casualties are герог- and put itself at Tea every udy of the whole anyone serious- Nor does Brixton pretend that lican prisoners the reoud united are "ordin- they ared criminals ary" be demands must and picked up the youth to turn forces: sub STaTE unions-but on the special techniques unions to turn to the youth.

torture remand; and brought before special, no jury courts whick In Brixton and Derry the out verne special have shown that une sentence of evidence (BobSt sentences most armed forces on which this Call Sands is serving fifteen years for the possession of a single Every day that the TUC refuses to work for a general revolver) The claim that the repub- govern- police in Brision anth licans are isolated malviaud with no popular Brixton gunmen and the been amply has support

DEMONSTRATION

US hands off El Salvador! March and Rally-Saturday April 25 Assemble at 12.30 pm at Speakers Corner Speakers include Michael Foot, Ken Gill, Eric Heffer, Alan Sapper, Salvador Moncada (FDR) Direct ruler Atki Thatcher

MURDERERS!

Labour's Roy Mason: devised Tory p

STOP THEM!

could boil over on t refuted by Bobby Sands' by- sides of the border election why Irish P Fermanagh/South Tyrone, in he Minister gaugney which he won over 30,000 the Visit vote et the British imperial- MPs Blaney, De • Valera O'Connell to Sands' bed ist rulers refuse to recognise in Long Kesh Sands and his fellow repub It is why Cardinals lican prisoners in Long Kesh other churchmen have as prisoners or wa their voices to the plea They prefer to leave him the Thatcher governme concessions other hunger their began action after Sands. Workers in stand the And in * Tn1S Ireland should place no Tories have the full unstint fidence in such appeals of the Labour

SUPPULL

Tory government is bru

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enderstio allu determined to uphold Bi bureaucracy. military rule in the six c repress ties-and Like Tories intimidate its enemies. Thatcher LaKeS confident action Like these the Tores, will receive continued "leaders" to let the partisan" support fron Loyalist army, labour movement the paramilitaries crush of the oppresse cacy struggles It is our job to break in the nationalist minority mobilise than North or eland British working class in s champion their struggle lo with its brothers arity the right of self determina- sisters in the tion for the Irish people.

carry thr street viol- political the fight for ence in the six countles withdrawal the the last week however under- British troops from Irel lines the fact that such a Irish mar We call on all our reade No course brings its own dangers and branch and Labour Par fight now its friends in the South.

If Bobby Sands is mur- force of the obduracy acuon dered withdrawal and dtive ou government the Thatcher oro-imperiaist leaders the inaction abour movemeni simmering Labourites,

URGENT NEED FOR TURKEY

SOLIDARITY

After eight months of hundreds of thousands military rule in Turkey, workers, in the dictatorship is still meles, far strike. away from consoli- The first dating its control. bargaining caement The regime remains as been issued by the Arbitra- unstable as ever in the face tion Committee of millions of workers press- workers at the giant iron and economic and steel plant at Eregli, offering democratic demands. These a 50% rise for 1979, 1980 and 40% for 1981, in a same workers have been the main victims of the econ- deal to last IoI omic policies of the junta three years. The Such an offer must be set demands the come through masses nave contex the unexpected channel of

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the reactionary yellow trade figures) and the low wages prior to the coup. confederation But the fact remains that which sits in the state-established working High Arbl- remains far from tration Committee. Its militancy and its fighting One demand is for a new formula the capacity remains strong des- minimum which pite its setbacks under milit- wage, WOrKeTS яте ary rule. arguing should be calculated on the basis of a 4-member Explosive issue family, while the employers' federation insists it should The question of wages be based on a single worker- will remain an and a consumption of 3,200 issue in the face of deepen- calories per day. problems for the regime 1112 The workers' demands and for Turkish capitalism.

amount to 4.3 times Last week the wage. At present minimum Parlament passed a one the ten calling on the regime to, leaders "return avtually walked out of the Arbitra- within two months-or face con committee the freezing of relations with wages and collective bargain- ing-which taken This nas

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development place since early 1979. Prior hand in hand with a growth the September of the bourgeois opposition Coup to the regime from Hunger and its former leader Bulent opposition based on human rights viola- tions by the junta striker ane e citayothor Istane ul, ex-mayor du lormure m urkev dies In response the junta has brought charges Ecevit and banned him from meeting AFTER 10 weeks on a leaders of the Second Inter- hunger national in West Germany entirely blacked out by the West German press, Eventually a new Sigurd Debus died wage, agreed mum заст week employers, TURK-IS and the press had suceded far moire German capitalist government has been at a figure nearly five times eVen Ene british lory higher than in the pre-coup press in muzzling reports ocrioa. the hunger strike which was At the same time workers pursuit of demands for a demands for the lifting savage suspensions prison afflicting activities and for the right to Debus and other have Strike prisoners, through i nis deain must de aoded executive-even to the grisly toll of violence collaborators These carried through by Schmidt's pleage their support for the dictatorship Jeacuonary ooca emocra tic government, involving the of workers, both vitulons murder of triste

TURK-IS

and within leadership Baader. now illegal left wing confed- group and other Mulanoi eration DISK, are also push- orisoners. ing forward demands Tris preditor b ampii- 1ee era a:= On Thursday 9 April the !! ming Sicr. paper of the Communist Party. arnied an article by their treland supporting specialist' Chris Myant. was willlle de sedl wny Was vent this pessimistic position?

the Irish Cr striker The answer 1s then article. He quotes the paper ' of the irish Com- munist rally, as saying that of political prisoners in Turkey particular DISK and massive repression been against whole Ja Dour movela ana socialist anc new collective revolutionary organisations.

Mass trials have begun

DISK,

DEV-YUL, DEV-SOL

for and PKK (Kurdish) militants with 200-300 demanded 50% for by the prosecution. Continuous military the operations are being carried Kurdistan, with

OUT

villages and towns terrorised 170% by the Turkish army (government extension of this _ine appallingly repression 9. layers bourgeois liberals was une spurred unat class Ecevit into opposition. defeated. Fascist line Meanwhile junta chiet Evren has been touring the Aegean coast, declaring speeches that the malr dangers to the Turkish state *comunissi "secessionism and explosive This same line was the backbone of fascist propa- ganda during their Luropean campaign prior to the coun Only 500 fascists will be brought to trial while the democracy fascist party this Iree and waits only for ar oportune moment resume the offensive. The international your workers' Labour musI Party not let the trade unionists, the RPP working masses, revolution- *Defend democrat: rights in Turkey. turkey temamn al the mercy of the junta, their torturers ers in Turkey. and the fascists. published an It ls necessary to organ- 1c and military active solidarity. In military dictatorship! lotallull. Trotskyist International Liaison Committee analist International mini- Summer School fixed 19-26 July 1981 Sessions on: Crisis of Imperialism; world economic crisis: Stalinist been crisis: Central America; and Litt Reconstruct the Fourth International For more details write to: WSL, BM Box 5277. London WCIN 3XX on Stalinists' about-face on Sands' election me boleis nave a sham. no- against hild the result was a victory Loyalist putting backing popular solution' numane Loyalist West and repub- con wuin tney presumadly lican Sands are thus regarded had opposed as being the same. Plainly the the How did Fermanagh disagree with the the Morning "Unity", Star Ical o testo on this election? issues" And True form, having socialists in Britain. Turkish police drag away gunned down militant Britain the Turkey Solidarity Campaign stands at the head -and has just produced a new information Raise the issue of Turkey union branch, or students union. Affiliate to the TSC: democratic *Free all political prison- *Black all arms, econom- aid to the The Polish govern- ment has conceded the from right to a Solidarity trade union to the country's farmers. TalK They have also conceded pean CP weekly television time to Solidarity with the comer Connected request' by Parliament to end strikes for two months Solidarity has accepted this since it does not carry the force of law. The leadershir also asked the government to committee make concessions. not made unaer oressure The concessions that have been made are designed both to end the action of the also to 1armer. Cane The strengthen the more right wing elements around Walesa Solidarity's leadership farmers agreed leading role of Communist ralLY Polish society for Moscou clearly playing with Rural Solidariti develop- ine licals unal inere will independent anotner leadership body challenging their -and this will be linked with the working class. positions" momentary strength- democracy Walesa (non existent greater тисл 01une rolentiany woole The Polish society is opposed to the bureaucracy. voting tor There now bea the Star then claims struggle to make this new union a representative of the poorer peasants and not just a Na for hord. LITt ricner larmer. up with the *no wink bureaucracy squeeze exploitation out of "solu- hit vc... also has its reflections inside the Polish Communist Party itself people The ruling bureaucracy is SIl as o now to deni witt "real Solidarity and much of the should ank and file nas gone ove ¿o luc wcw maovement.

POLISH LEADERS

PLAYING

WITH FIRE

Last Wednesday 500 Central Committee meetings Communis Party activists to be published. 19 cities met in the They demanded Copernicus University direct elections to the July Torun. This is the first major party congress, not the pré- file conference ang congress committees which organised of an East Euro- were unrepresentative. These demands for demo- ine reason the conter cracy and for the end of ence was allowed must be are important ele with attempts by ments transitional the "hiberal" programme to political revo- to outmanoeu- lution o ne cracy vie the hardliners. Dull musi ve mace cez This is borne out by the to Polish CP members that attendance of three Centra the CP is the party of the members bureaucracy (although Kania refused to and the endorse- leadership rests on its privil- ment of the conterence Dy There official Warsaw paper, changing the Stalinist Zycie Warsazawy. was attendance at the demand that news of events the Ps in the reitor astero Poland : circulated quickly such shows nou developments can overtake Europe. such a move, KuT the bureaucrats who at first unless directed to the masses endorse them an attempt True the nalli as mare danger of a Soviet invasion the removal appeals to other hardliners Stalinist bureaucracies But What Is a Hussaiy criticism at the confer genuine Ievolutionary barl ence was of the whole of the -a irorskyist party "people fight- a political revolution to over- stay their throw the bureaucratic caste bring about • councus suca parti as those that developed last the CPs Celeste entral Strike n form SICi and for early zUs) full minutes the millee Joe Tosti We have learned with great sorrow of the tragic death in London of Joe Tosti, a member of the Workers Socialist League who played a leading role ir the long and successful strike for union recognition in the Linton Lodge Hotel, Oxford. A full apprecia tion of Joe will appear in next week's Socialist Press.

AUSTERITY ON THE

New stage in Spanish crisis SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 Austerita, austeridad, of the announcement of a in Italy's massive austerity. However worsening • yUl spell it, it is the war cry Lidut announced a new packet of of hard-pressed reaction- measures. governments today designed ary The al c from Peking through reinforce the 6% devaluation and raising of interest rates Warsaw, Rome, Madrid, foul weeks aru. Paris and London to Washington. Whatever their sions of eternal hatred and Lucy de wester o col government spending by THose governments are in accord equivalent of £2.500 million.

on one thing the need for It seats unli that this austerity. achieved. since And what that means is the need to raise the exploi- ment was umaoe to tation of the direct produc- its major demand on the unions-the of suspension

CIS

SOCICLY

their real wages and raising the sliding scale of wages their productivity through Italy's workers won their sliding scale in the 1960s and speed-up and

MILESYUH

work and cutting available 19/0s. It means cally social services. wages are renegotiated every or three years and Similar that automatically with the cost of living. Whether unencasues The protection which are in the interests of Stalin- ist bureaucrats' privileges this gives against inflation is capitalists' profits they not complete and there are many the which remakao y ways remarkably similar justifica- tions their advocates. irom passages reCent I specenes

VCH-

Hsiao Ping, Leonid Brezhnev, Stanislaw Kania. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would be interchangeable.

ever wil the advocates austerity Last week's killing of in trouble. If they are ever two more retired military had it in the first place ther are in danger of losing their officers and a capitalist- political means of support ETA and the "auto- by allu puwel anti-capitalist that rolana SnOWS commandos"-has most acutely in the Stalinist- ruled countries, Italy must into plunged Spain fresh stage of its political nearly capitalist care crisis. Every new packet As after every terrorist austery measles Seves aniack now me canner weni another strand in the thread immediately into emergency life which the following which the Tne

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rorani government hangs. Prime MinisTer LeoDo do Last week, after protrac- Calvo Sotelo met with the with ted the military chiefs of staff.

Ine meeting "Shuttle' heightens The whoops of delight economic backase But the e vast military poten- from the Reagan admin- tial Shuttle istration at the success of seems likely Dreame the space shuttle exercise encure toz turner lugos de last week has nothing to made available over and flights the do with any new-found above alreadv agreed bv Congress Republican interest US military planners had scientific advancement. worried the recent been Reagan's "killer ot Soviet successes stashing rederal spending on scientific research. But it is funnelling Yast arms build-up as part of their phe no increase military might of US Shuttle mean ine for many further historic step towards explor- allon ol lie unverse. Dul lor Reagan, Haig and Bush the possibility of establishing orbiting with high definition surveill- and high DOWeT Baser down intercontinental nuclear in any Soviet WIth Union. Reagan is seeking cuts in NASA, as part spending by

MARCH

CP and SP leaders Berlinguer and Craxi scala mobile could be improved. bul nonetnciess It was a tremendous victory for Italy's working class and for Which is increasingly becom- ing She real cabinet. the Ministers Democratic Centre Union (UCD) government are try- military coup by at vasting to avert une their authority the with-to Sham the oppos- ition Socialists and Communists-abdicate then une weak and reactionary UCD.

Parliament has war danger sattelites" which manoeuvre to and destroy target cince sattelites by detonating themselves USSR is apparently ahead coogy this field, which would theoretically enable Soviet military sattelites and those for communica-

SALVADOX

a decade now it has been the call

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usoulcu vy capitalists and their govern- ment Italy's experience witt it was hi-jacked on February 23 by Lt. Colonel leiero- who has just sold me purs to publisher and article justifying the CouD leading right wing paper

ABC.

The only serious parlia- mentary VOlt • Last year's vote of censure by the Socialist Party did however, take place last week. was over whethe ecclesiastic should hold law any swal which liberalises divorce.

The combined forces the parties and vosition tions Research is going on into the production of sattelite. equipped • with sensors and laser guns. Military outpost Shuttle But the Space shows that the US imperial- ists may soon be able to go still further ahead -launch- and positioning even servicing Inel satellie. will; capturing Soviet sattel- ites and taking them back to swiftly earth: alla to establish a manned oroll ing military outpost serviced outpost could DuCi not destroy enem missiles but launch its own missiles against selected US Air rorce already planning its own $450 million control centre space flights and JoT allar its own launch pad for what expanded arena is seen I as an build up Ol lillial y Shuttle flights footage in the cargo bay has undis- allocated for Page 3

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the scala mobile shows how important is this demand in the struggle to prevent the capitalist from inflict- ing the cost of their crisis on wOIKerS. Divided In the negotiations of the weeks the rorianı government has been trying Italian CP demonstration to get the unions to agree to scala mobile for a very low mobile so They have said thai that prices would be allowed price prices are frozen and oth but ine resistance ol to decisively overtake wage the CIGL following : the CP's taken thes measures rates at least for a period "opposition

LICW

Sulatey. to uiscuss une qur prevented this from happen- tion. Catholic

(CISL)

Socialist • ing. The defence of the sc

(UIL)

and Communist But the

CIGL

bureau- mobile thereiore cannot (CIGL)-were divided on union cras are no more commutted Cane bure their response. to the scala mobile in prin crats; it depends on cont

CISL

bureaucracy ciple than their ual vigilance by the rank a are was sell the file in the unions. vivalet counter balts rebel "social democratic" It could easily become a From this distance sections of the UCD led bargaining looks very unlikely that suc Counter CP's plan to negotiate a new a deleat lor ine elections could again be wo Democrat" sections of the along by the discredited parties

UCD

side parties the right and that the opp of the Socialists • ne vote seve o er class. would line the lack of authority of themselves unwillingly the UCD government. Gained little a majority are few in Spa today who can imagine suc suspension It nas led TO rumour. of an impending cabinet of the scala mobile Forlani a scenado conaming has gained little these terruptedly without anoth reshuffle which 'social attempt by military would democrats ally tilli the civilian politiciar removed and beyond this to they bring nearer Ousl a possible moment when Italian altogether speculation about class decides that his And yet the mai • UCD Congress. : emergency sally general cations within and puny coaliot governmen workers nares ane uno can serve their voracious continue to stand idly by.

interests no longer. Shuttle blasts off Brezhner and his fello truction in a further cosmic closed US military use extension of the imperialist Stalinist bureaucrats warn o The cost of such military the dangers of imperialism.

huge-and arms race develooment President opposed will itsell

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DUT

Slalil scientific aspects the Brezhnev "oy warding of the working class delon to ove Shuttle programme Shuttle warning of throw it, fearing Inal sue. of the struggle will also military implications own privileged Every ten days end to thel programme, and appealig le the Reagan government parasite existence building of Only By the end of the 1980s establish same Ine revolutionary , predicted that Shuttie peacerul coexiste to lead th country flights will Space as be taking piace exists earin timperial every many Yet the fact is that struggle day the such flights will imperialism ism be designer long the danger of war is an ever bureaucracies car auswer th -all lan threat nuclear annihila over simply carrying many nresent toreal nangui. weapons of and des- the masses on a world scale

GLC Election test for Tories Page 4 On May 7 Londoners will be voting for a new Greater London Council in the first major test of the feeling that has obviously been building up against the throughout the country. The Labour Party hoping leader counci and Horace Cutler-one oi Thatcher's fans gicalesl who has sought to carry out her cuts with enthusiasm.

order succeed in toppling going to the polls with a left wing programme worked by the London Labour rally. Denounced This programme has been roundly denounced by the Tories in their election as Marxist sub- provalanca versin tact the Tories, faced with the appalling results oi government's policies. increasingly and desperate in their red-baiting, ana are put forward any positive proposals the

GLC

may be other than more Scargill!"

CULS

instance, in a recent piece Local Tory equally clear make the South London tress the rulers of County Hall are listed achievements counting (which include "the culmin- out-their own

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of ation our work on the policies and this government par or phe in a couple of on course i them votes. LUt and then used course isn't article that Labour's manifesto is a allack une "Marxists' London fully-fledged in ine Labour Party: In lact man of lucially. "Their targets are all the demands which lined vour pocket first. Tories abolition of the City; nation- vehement about alisation the banks; the lawner moacrate abolition the House subsidising public Lords and following that as transport, in order to the night the day, the no services dna cur faes replacement is accepted in many Euro- Lite Marxist pean cities which are by Will president-and on present Murdered: but screws go free Barry Prosser is not unequivocal the first prisoner to be trom two hats that 32 year led Prosier murdered by prison attacked officers in Britain and he considerable violence. burst.

will not be the last. stomach, coroner who But he is one of the few to accept an open verdict.

return a verdict of unlavury inquest nave killing. Beaten up Prosser was murdered by One witness, screws wnie in the hospita wing Winson Green Calvin. said he heard Prosse Prison, Birmingham being beaten up and warder say 'He was a bugger Medical evidence to put down" ne The could get an early newest two things. Firstly the he kept his mouth shut. new organisation be purports itself Cience calling the antitommunists Ant- Soviet Socier has emer- " it: 5* ged on the far right. 1:::

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Siiz: Garden Lason's Covent the invited their One of the people invol- vai in this venture from the Alliance of Russian sondarists (Nis In kusslan) Association The NTS claim to be rieedom *to restined months Christian Democratic some sick to lom his own Liber- Icoresculcu unougnoul capitalist world and Tre Anti-Soviet Society Russia itself. Arthur for instance On Nevertheless, Labour's given to one ner manifestoes

GLC

programme repair existing that contains "keep costs within proposals which, programme wows here! a major confrontation with the Tories. attack on are clearly rented Implement pledges buying and true For this reason it is vital vacant Marxist that Socialist suppor- ters fight hard for the elec- the

GLC,

and modernise and particularly fight hard for the full imple- run-down of the manifesto assist inose on 10w once these councillors are in of sector with power. 1aKCE by manifesto means confronta- out tion with the tions." Tories because cullillils Lavour massive increase in spending.

BLOW

THE

cessful legal medical Three screws are now or 43,000-strong patholo- paid leave' from the prison, ol the same name including Melvyn Jackson, will Lilt se Hor onicer wno was exactly acquitted murder indendary history reactant and Birmingham's 1979. and lUW Its leader, contested Cannot stard tall An urgent inquiry' Central being find canvaren produced onlv ten some way • of smoothing the votes out of 19,000 Patrick James troubled waters. HIS Is noT expected include jail unkindly declared that it was one sentences for the wardens.

Jenkins and the Gang of y were now passing themselves told he release if party. New Cold War Society broad Their work Russia they say links exist between is carried out on an impressive but as an Anti-Soviet Society Malc they surprisingly) are callel says wu cooperate WOrK "enthusiastically auns ana attitudes = exerte and sustry =sce ::-3% public Chinese and Korean polit 1966 Nantas anti-Sone: #5e Dee Icians. But recent It is now riddled with Poland and openly "ane Stalinist Nazi organisations. party coupled with Mucn or te lunding oi this group comes from Saud Reagan provided a new impetus. Arabian businessmen Cutler-welcomed onto platform at 1979 Tory Party Conference housing, a pledge is to be a malor vote catche homes, and have been stressed in all service. homes and the election material put out the reach by Labour candidates. be cut by structure wile orace uter as also commits indulged in gimmicky "launch a major schemes investigate disrepair the 'waste" and "extravagance" staff will London Transport, fares the satiot services have sale stop the vecil cut all loos nave Doe council natural wast- dousine other age leaving many scheduled reSIS area government dictates on sales bus services abandoned each improve Devalist Crew. a t Every single Counci estates avalladie incomes Londoner knows thạt to buy homes in the private London Transport 100% mortgages and the Cilaus lack of planning and lack of proposais anu suboon ure work camer Housing Associa- finance. before Labour's proposals Cart am lost proposals for revolutionary -but naraly London Transport are likely they do mean lower fares Press

FOR SDP

43-strong Democratic Party always had now Gang facing a £2,000 bill for legal costs as a result of its unsuc- tussle upstart rival The original SDP has not illustrious since its formation ir Donald Kean can fly by election -blas his Glasgow Is it a bird? Is it a can't bullet? Is it Superman? No. It's the skyrocket- Inside ing keeping Fitzhugh fawning sonic aircraft in the sky Concorde the dream of travel sixties; the the cash-guzzler ol me seventes nas decomt members of Kean's the embarrassing white sleep to elephant of the eighties.

committee Commons the flight.

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recommended that its future be investigated-and pointed governments. vul lal une cosio cancel million) coold be less thar Concorde it was the 7. 41. ment of It is not known if any cost of continuing to run the for the next live years -useless Concorde has long been price with other depository of jingoistic Theorie The with similar the nation Lan brought the tisements to five continents be copy onom athe: orzanisa. all bad? It is of course that boom C:500:1: a00: 1: super iand-a nich has ical events rendered Leno oce Concorde vir- une unreal atlantar intervention tually useless. Mail Thatcher/ Capitalism has abused its technological knowledge warmongering have can Star produce aircraft which shuttle an SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 By Ann Evans scheme However the scheme is s limited application

HOSL

now paying more for thei regular journeys! Hulle bow singer out for attack by the Torie is a brief statement on the police: "London's ratepayer: over £200 a Pheir police, but unlike every year : of Britain have no omer are say at all in the running its police force Labour will for unle tion of democratic control in this crucial area." What form of democratic control passion sued on by Toas : this oneston and press alike as police and a conto or ane step towards a Marxist dic tatorship" Repression But with police repres sion being stepped up and a police occupation now estab.

Brixton Lichen proposal is bound to strike chord with the Harasse youth unemployed London's boroughs. This election one and a more rational, planned the most important joCa elections for many years for Bus and tube fares are to several reasons 25% and the fare big swing to Labour simplified Fares would MaOr

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will then be troze! against the Tories at a time 1 antonon out the term of office. More split in thei when they are be recruited and ranks and faced wit • UWIl buses growing resistance from civil service and other unions.

sides will be increased anc extended to include British would be Rail services within the GLC tunity Calend Tories' from coolice position much stronger than Popularity any other Laboul local counci. The GLC altern The Tories themselves are has a budget which is greater than the national product of worce about tre potentia popularity of these transport most countries in the world Just one DU ans depends on and Labour's a massive publicity being held to their manifesto they have intro- duced a suburban flat fare confront the Tories head on million per voyage at a speed wnich be used. The shuttle flight-whic fuel that can't be afforded.

makes even Concorde seem Oldl cneap -was seen as somenow first service paying the world back for all convinced jaded businessmen ÜSA's humiliations only way to the last ten years. argument put for ward by the press to defen It gels tem tnere early enough to grab a few hours Concorde are similar to the work : up an appetite arguments for increased arms excesses of spending. The sugar on the pill is patriotism, alle Concorde was defended ramonasm Underneatr well as the drive for profits and aDour as . For the Tories with physical bosses are private industry' British supremacy

DIULIES

Tony

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Take Benn campaign to union rank & file SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 throughout the movementi debate summer monins are lo policy and programme. provide a major forum such a debate opens up for the campaign stretching DOssiles secure Tony Benn's elec- beyond the limitations of the fire points tion as Deputy Leader of put forward by Benn in his the Labour Party. election platformn. With Benn well placed to Critical support win the maioritv of constit.

uency votes, but unlikely to win substantial support from Socialist Press, while not Parlamentary Labour endorsing Party, his only hope lies in his ability gives its critical support te to win lank alla this campaign. file the SuDOOTE within unions in order to overturn come initiatives File Mon inteRnated the bureaucratic Loisolaly to back Denis Healey. to promote the campaign in no half be the period between now and measures in such a campaign.

By defying Uctober Party both right wing in dis de et un on led fos in his decision to election Benn Benn told a meeting last him seli no choice but to go week of the RFMC that he over their heads to had only recently discovered union membership, CalentO such deals had been an opportunity for socialists union leaders Weekend of anti- nuke protest Margaret nuclear warhead was elected Thatcher touring the President Lill Middle East in search of Siales. UnIV international movement will military outposts, the people destroy the bomb anti-war movement gathered pace une beobe. weekend with a series of Meanwhile in Britain 9,000 strong rally rallies in Britain Saturday and Europe. rollowing 7.000-strong march from Leeds. In pean protest including 1.000 Midlands C'ND supporters from Britain 10.000 people turned out to marched to the NAlO head- Seport in est a d festival Rugby quaners in brussels. Delega- tions from 13 countries were Hillmorton

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present in what is scen as a transmitter 11 sec with a tull scale march Brussels bailles In the Southern Revion A declaration calling for CND activities were focussed Europe was ma Montonaly handed the

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Common, the which was heavily Dase desuned as one or tie Belgian riot sites for the new Police. missiles aimed at the A 11 American anti- 5,000 some missiles campagner London, And "On November 4 another CND marches were held.

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promote of efforts to prevent Benn even and they questions first place. the Solidarity It is necessary таке decisions out of the hands of such people considerable Pressure must be brought implement

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iniough oedr local policies. GMCs, aluor The through Jedders at branch. area and national level as well as conterences.

Cabinet snadow bell Benn's platform, And we wel- Committee conference

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(16-18 made and Shadow Healey wme time toe vote of the NUT conference defy line the unions racculive ana adool lined "no nukes" policy under- the oomo aestrovs growing anti-war current within the Laus was held movement. civil servants strike 600-strong nas shown that many person- ner essentiai to une operation over of the British nuclear arsenal are preparea to take actior against the government and targeted able to have an impact on British military capacity.

com- last lit next Polaris sub- must be period is to develop the cam- within the labour movement and at the sant Green- tat tere will be no alsarm- US consistent ament while Thatcher's government remains Cruise ville

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anel dispose of the bomb requires class action to kick tive sociatism mentary capitalism. is the case. Labour economic strategy. To develop Education, oiner services with sIon Education, other services economie By John Lister man, and COHSE (23-26 June). We urge are all men!) • leauers in these "Labour daritectives to submit emergency through resolutions calling branches inel been made and avoiding any invite benn new measures to make them • Ivautis the conference acaress to mandate conterence dele- UW1 gates io support the REMC

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looked al une list oi lorth impact of Benn's trade union confer- candidacy in sharpening the ences. It was agreed to lobby to address these conferences on the politics of his campaign-and where necessary to organise fringe on the issues Most important of thess conterences are the USDAW April): (26-29 (10-12 May), ASTMS June); TGWU (22-26 June) A look at Benn's five points Benn's announcement of his candidacy in the Deputy Leader elections stressed that the confron- tation is not one of per- sonalities but of policies.

He is right. But this does without the nationalisation nol mean unal benn-wnc of the banks, land and major supported against indUshe alternative econom- Healey -has a correct pack- ic strategy" nọ such trary. une uve boints ne nas perspective: put forward fall far short of and it ls alsc socialist Strongly intecteo strident nationale _wit and SnoW culte demands for import control clearv unareno remans. to protect "British" however 'left' he may appear Lapilal the utopian st industry against loreign capitalist competition. politics of seeking to achieve parlia- within • The "strategy" therefore oner no ren alternative to A brief examination of the class collaborationist his proposals show why this policies of Labour's right winfiz.. "1. As a lirst priority to support and restore full employment dur strengthen the rights ing the life time of the next women, extend demo. Government cracy and selfgovernment al industry and 4 evers in society, to defend the trade expand unions, to protect the inter and Housing, Health ests of the ethnic commun.

Welfare alle Ines, to enact a rreedom ol Information Bill and to end puDII both meet the House of Lords. peoples' needs and to create These praiseworthy obiectives are all couched ir Of course all socialists terms of Parliamentary restoring ocal reforms: yet the abolition of employment and the expan- the House of Lords and the ettective delence of trade Welfare union richts and extension essential rights demand a moblisaton ol "alternative mass support To develop strategy" referred "4. tion with lo by benn in point lIs ir all the countries on eurose to secure me com and restructuring capitalism plete withdrawal of Britain in Britain. It is nota strates Common Market United tor a planned socialist ccon and to support the Pag TGWU confer political questions within the and the COUrSE Labour Party struggle socialist tre porters must press ho ui une , where for

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Apri "left wing" Un e so-called brame un socialist pr the PLP was split down the In contrast both to H middle on whether or not to reactionary platfor Benn's support Benn against Healey inadequate The next few months will points. see numaDer poseurs smoked cosendo-ett out within the Labour Party Tony B international justice "defended" peace, against and world development. supposed "Soviet threat In fact dange Benn's call With obliteration the Common arawal from Market infected by the by th nationalism imperaisis. ane the drr mood economic alternative aggression strategy. American military leade Rather than seeing the British working class as part contemplate launenin! "limited" European nu war. Socialist Chited States of States Overthrow Socialist United Bent bulUUC We addresses the question need not plan disentangling the British British capitalist economy from the forces with effective weaponry, And his support for the sualey reactionary United Nations- and assist t sule lask IS O WOrK forces Irelan imperialist rule across the throughout the world of the mator ther ImDer face-speaks volumes for oppression and exploitat We not pollucai contusion CeTT wing reformists expect Benn elabo to such a programme. He nOn Buckin de ortie ro come a long way from Britain, of collaboration work Wilson and Callag Hucica. usaldinent ano o cecure The removal n' covernments.

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Tel! American nuclear bases firmly reformist ra from Britan. than a revolutionary But his candidacy of Evaded the chance to discuss al labour to ren the and Benn's formulation fight neatly Taise evades an importan standing of leftward question Awansı wnon "non-nuclear defence forces in the Labour Part the need DeYI Benn's five points io a agree sistent, interra iona Labour's right lila onus caontansm snoula suralist viugaran

RENT STRIKES: CLYDESIDE &

Ernie Stubbins takes a look at the historical experiences of the working class in fighting the imposition of rent increases. He begins this week with Clydeside and Leeds. Next week Page 6 lunitions workers on the Clyde, 1915 The First World War class households to refuse to pay the increases. led to a massive increase At this the land- the demand for ship- in lords involved builders and munitions and withdrew the increases. However, the Govan victory workers especially un che widespread Valley interest Clyde among an e these where industries soon similar rent strikes were were traditionally breaking out all over Clyde- side. centred. workers into the trea Two factors of workers the area nortas housing developed, and loca were landlords and estate agents were quick to take advantage Ali calls successin sorego or the ren strikes throughout the these Keseniment Clydeside region increases was widespread but success of the The tirst of these was a cam- campaign of depended on an initial lactory gate paign neetings called by the local breakinougn snowing various left that the workers could beat groups in the the landlords by their organ- arca, reporting une success Or the Govan action and salon ana surengin explaining its tactics. The breakthrough came Govan where it in the area, Second was the strength of the Women's was led by Mrs Barbour, Housing Committee was by Willie described Gallacher as large numbers of ordinary working class women in the Govan housewife'. physical defence of their the bailiffs Trained ano une Donce during ine course of the strike. In lact, as Jonn Maclean makes clear in his articles In the a the • stages of the written after the Rent Strike workers Mrs Barbour lau brouent oressure on the local anine dras a public Hahry council to use its powers to and organiser reduce rent levels, this McBride, the secretary of the had effect the Labour Party Housing Com- Glasgow DourgcoIse mittee, which had been Clydeside active the Legal tactic some len veds. fighting for improved con- ditions and for the provision Meanwhile the landlords, failed to recover having counct housing for the working class. Barbour and MoBride orrea.

Govan dwellings found a new legal area, Couts to Nits to have the cu a successiul roll suIke.

persuading many working L8S min the high phen hot the striking workers' Taking timely advantage, wazes stopped at source for Maciean housing turning point, militancy outstanding debts. Before telegrammed campaigns in the Clydeside.

cases could be heard Asquith. the Prime Minister here was a rurther one general strike government intervened threatening a day general strike against The by appointing a Commission Clydeside increases introduced in the whole rent Enquiry. Consistil renon uno beanent Solu ILUr out Lile Luie tion was made available. Chamberlain's 1923 Housing the problem of rents in the Act, which lifted the region. Rent Act controls illaity the landlords there was little or no active were acting together effec- The Cabinet gave way to tively aggressively. demands and workers' Rent strikes were of them Lloyd HullUst all George substantial rent nouces ol Kent

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pero or ine oonuca scene agai increases. rents at prewar levels. until the early 1930s. The Commission even- This or legal limitations the tually granted Increases system about the leve sector ove private TeRES claimed by the landlords. which became a permanent feature of housing Britain and has been Demonstrations ine centre or larous coale At the time it was unden- This had the unforseen iábly an effect of bringing into the the class struggle all the other workers working one ot the best examoles ol Clydeside

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reforms being forced on the found their rents increased British ruling class by direct viciously. Because of this broaden- aculon uy une worKers However, rent controls After the of ing of the swuggle WaVe alone not the main numbed rene strikers mere militancy against the political of the arrested, mass wintell Clydeside rent increases leaders of the action demonstrations dill of 1915 had gradually nev nao been camoasn- were up hacked by total introductiony years for hil stoppages of work in the died away was no There introduction shipyards. important rent strike in housing as the provider of this pressure the Britain until 1934 when nucl rented accommodalon 10] nerit or triasow arve way the working class. Leeds saw a fairly large nd rejected the landlords' somețimes been outbreak. High point The important point about the Leeds rent strike was taken on secret Instruc tions from the Cabinet who of the leaders, is that it was directed against One allow could not afford to Wheatley, was to become a relorming Labour councu Minister of Health the The council had drawn any osses LIt Tatt production in the shipyards.

large scale 1924 up clearance MacDonald and Obviously the situation ment, and brought Rose reach action would ne crisis 1924 Act which for the sium area in the city was reaching made centre, which needed a large possible the great building pro council house needed an outbreak expanso or counce ious building in the 1920s. revolutionary activity was to zammeo accommodate une The rent strike of 1915 displaced slum dwellers. be avoided Leeds 1934 This in turn meant a sub- stantial rise in the rates to finance the interest costs and runnie housing. difficuedy hereuin the period Leeds Council saw DeTOre int sum! were which occupied, . the ratepayers in effect be subsidis- Council the house TenanT. been rehoused. Economic cost Hostility to this situation threaiened the whole of the centre scheme SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 Working class housing

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The solution that the came up with was to increase the rent the the economic Cost illaels eliminate existing The pattern of subsidies, and to with a scheme them replace Means test The rebates be subject to means test, better off the tenants would sancer rebates. Many tenants objec- ted to the indignity of the April test, and in meall strithe couscil issued evic- tion notices and the strike

ICIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 n Glasgow at the turn of the century

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lapsed rapidly, scheme. hoping that this idful of organisers to fight would persuade a large num- of better case through the Courts ber housing and counci ere uney were eventually vacalt ten. either However, Council's private sector. the was short lived, They hoped to obtain an

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for additional 5,000 ause they were real UlLS eated in the next muni- letting; to slum dwellers allow for demolitions by this al elections. mediou. Party The Communist New pattern began organising estate com- the in opposition to The Leeds important in it ir, bot case plan Connels December bringing these a new pattern of tenant and demonstrations, ggles alle The central question was eventual the Birmingham Municipal Tenants Association in the 1ld not afford the rent reases; what was objected ans test. Ballot The from the question inci's point of view was Faced with the refusal of balancing Ient The the council to alter its policy :ounts but the tenants held a ballot on ssible new wave the question of a rent strike.

unca oulang Out of a total of 49,000 voted, of Leniallls this whom 14,438 were in favour was panter uggle Birmingham of the proposed that led to a remark- When the strike began on May le victori Ior the tenanis Lay. 11,000 supported was man pects similar to the Leeds of the course : nightly The Labour Council had struggie there meetings dealing une estales oblem large privately who sent ated slum areas in the city reports to a central coordin- kke some decision about TIne lendals and rehousing. The together there were regular arance estate from one Ous were, for stantial; there to another the over 10,000 cases Remarkably, ouses list were hired from the Corpor- the waiting for these solidarity sing The Council drew up a excursons. rebate There some similar to the Leeds about whether the Birming- nain rent strike had any industrial supporting from Council employees. In his book Not a Penny Rent', MacDonald on porting strike in the Hous- ing Department, but there is . reference to this action in any other accounts, or in the surviving issues of the Rent offices What is that industrial action played no of the strike. The Council was making progress in wearing down the CTe Dv Seule rent offices where rent could the strike be paid without organisers being aware oi it This same tactic was used the rent and rate against called by the Repub- licans In Tne Ireland during the 1970s). the strike Ene ended there were 7,000 still witholding the rent, but even number this reduced financial damage to tne councu, ana •was the main factor in forcing the Council to recon- sider the scheme. Victory In mid-June the strikers were ante Den 011 attempts by police and bailiffs to arrest strike organ- ISeTS. physical conflict allowed the tenants to force the Council accounts

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class women, because the authorities planned most of Eneit working day. curious compromise out to worked bring an ena to une surke The Council agreed the means withdraw Leaders of the rent the themselves promised strike now being suppor- undertake the job of finding ted by thousands of rich tenants' and persuadin council tenants in Walsall unem are calling for a national their favour people needing conference of tenants' from the slum rehou sing organisations. clearance scheme. The rent strike takes the form witanold Slum clearance £3.25 increase imposed council. But the Labour Although the Birming- council leaders have publicly ham rent strike can be regat- ded for the tenants in that it prevented the ImplementaLIOl scheme which Tne Tenant. found obnoxious, it does not serve as a valuable example oi workers uncel tion into policy making by Labour Councils, because outbreak : the Second LIt prevented either Worldr side having to carry out its promises Within a year or two the slum clearance programme andem by besiers Lastwater.

Hitler's Luftwaffe and the Council carried out what Te nouss under emergency powers. Heseltine Page? Our Hushards Sons ond Brothers ure fighting the Prusstans of Cemiany We are fighting the Prussians of PARTICK arly oftenatire

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Hospital Street, Gorbals in Glasgow Support Walsall Conference call ing last weekend called on supported the action, claim- that it is only the danger Labour's NEC to help organ- ing a Clay Cross-style victim- ise a national conference on oI has held them that the : Labour leaders back irom acrying neserile enthusi The counci Tenants Association House acabora suca a Drospec done nothing now claims growing support rent new Tor town-support Walsall call increased by anger at high- in should be welcomed by all handed counci changes socialists as an opportunity method of rent collec- tion. drive torward the mobil 400-strong mass meet- isation of tenants. Our

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Cynical and shady links of Social Democrats Page 8 Decked fittingly in patriotic red, white and blue, the Social Demo- cratic Party set sail last month in a blaze of free media publicity. It now claims over 40,000 mem- bers. but it is plain that ine decision to launch the Party the part of pun, Williams, Rodgers, Owen and the Jenkins humiliating math Their defeat the Wembley conference split had been dis- cussed and planned in detail before the end of 1980. leaked internal docu- ment November either or Owen, has been Rodgers Duousned ov rubour weeki- revealing the Social Demo- "clean for a crats' strategy break ane me varty launch the spring the Wembley regardless Free coverage outlines The document the need to utilise the oppor- tunity for endless free media coverage prior to and follow- ing the conference. for every week we wait in February and March we lose momentum, lose the feeling. we Know where going and the Special usuuilallus Conference in e break We need therefore point. in January so decisions earl! 1021 we escadle me souls- ¡cance of the Conference.

and put the the public's mind, paraclari between January to 12 January when Parliament is not sitting.

regar- such tulie Is also ded as ideal because it came numbers of growing would-be the ront wind er aced une embarrassment of reselection conferences in, their constit- uencies, when might make the new party seem like "a home for rejects" Other problems discussed iow to and Roy Jenkins the document Incuce Brussels, since Tell! i Social Demo some or lne crats' supporters understand- ably recognise him as "a liability, linked to the Liberal tentre party concept and not a Social Democrat Harm identity e autor speculats on the possibility that the might be fully media about the new Party. those in the media who vish us ill will b only him (Jenkins) as the leader. sens Happy ing he will do harm to the dentity of Social Demo- cracy. In their efforts to avoid this, evolved their much-vaunted "collective leadership" struc- tu And the document advo- that party Cules come vol over nas will David Steel and the Liberal Party until January 'private. personal contacts would, o course continue (!) and be useful."

At this time of course Shirlev Willams and Tom Bradley were Doin stil on the Labour Party's NEC, Rogers and Owen planned split well in advance Free Europe; and CIA men publicly their cause 20al and Tom Dulles denying as late as February drew in the backing or ne that had barons and many Braden. she was While the living was easy launch the more plantle for the Labourite : lured onto the capitalist class and thei party. funds the The SDP's plans gathered propagandists. such binges. first were put most momentum the right wing has Gaitskell. together the With n allerilalil his of right wingers includ- Rodgers and cabal miners' point looked «trikena! Jenkins, Crosland the potential vulner- right wing where • abourite cronie.

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Thatcher as a stalking horse for their and Douglas Jay. the

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of + Lah 19% elec- anti-socialist politics. occasior government Te lulau 1959 to Rodgers in particular was defeat class action had toral delete been sharply exposed spotted in the late 1950s as a launch useful organiser for extreme Clause IV -the call for Worried sections of capit- right wing causes within the nationalisation -from media eagerly Labour Party. *anour sconsululon His talents came to light mysteriously-financed Demo- towards the social in a period in poll opinion back possible Parliamentary right a plana coalition partner to a beleag ganda campaign wingers had become involved azallls CIA-backed anti-com- nationalisation As the Tory ured Tory government-and front joined in, did intellectual POSSIDi Itals Rodgers, who splitting the Labour vote in oreanisalons. the next General Election.

General of the Society began Lavish resources CIA-backed for Gaitskell. rally support 1960 Labour views and "news" coverage In the late 1950s Hugh as the Social Democrats lim- conference registered a body Gaitskell, Anthony Crosland blow to their campaign. An hered un orior to the official and Denis increasingly militant working Heale! went party launch among those attending func- political basis for The class nag made Is ball CIA-sponsored the bureaucratic this is also contained within "Congress for Cultural Free- the leaked document. dom The anonymous Gaitskell and Healey also Gangster" voices the view Prince went guests that: Bernhardt .. the unacceptability lands 1 attend attend sessions of to have of allowing Britain years 25y bad governeen an influential bad real ringet years American, Joseph Retines outweigh the that solitting the lett coul Marshall Aid funding for the allow the auropean Movemen period or or rene be meer Dick Taverne, Tne rent- between the vears gade Lincoln Labourite, was 1/14/L 0nd 964 ne ques both a leading figure in timing is a tactical deciplin tion then is how the kuderDero urou ailu di active member of the Euro- pean Parliament. for Tory rule also European overner from the netarious Committe for d Democats "American The Social Europe therefore quite early included embrace the prospect that members could precipitate head of their split the OSS: Lucius forerunner. Jenkins: recognised as a liahility D: Clay, a founder of Radio And with precisely this trade leadership unions-and block votes Gaitskell were cast to defeat IV i the Clause

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issue but also on the Issue nuclear weapons with the call endorsement of a uniatera disarmament and a break from NATO. Gaitskell declared that he "fight, fight and fight would again" against socialls! press and by policies. He Tory press-and

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William Rodgers and a gang of right wingers. interests Reactonary chipped in willingly . A large from sum money "anonymous source enabled Rodgers to set up an office and a full time stati for his "Campaign for Demo- cratic Socialism Local organisers were with travelling expen lavishly printed pam- phlet: and boundless supplies of the CDS Mani- lesto. A regular Dunelin wa.

posted free of charge to a huge list of ward secretaries SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 198 By Terry Smith Ronald Reagan's and advisors. Mike Thomas and wrigglesworth's brush

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front organisat began when the ati of Union Students ot opposed the last to to disatilliate t the CIA-undea internal al Student Conference ir 1960s. only when the boa hopelessly exposed an credited did the NUS the hu David Owen, on hand other toge has Bradle

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William Rodgers remain member Co thie Labour : Understan ranslann NATO-funded organisation whose include Chap upluuilous and which Issues a bu British trade Tourials Rockefeller And last Owen visited the USA of the member Commission Trilateral The missan was _ set up on initiative group American aire David Rockefeller initial Its recruits from the Us bourgeoisie its immediate team of i expanded to dav in t ogists picked reactionaries Europe and Trilate (hence the title provided by cold waI such as Henry Kissinge In the event the unilater.

alist policy on nuclear wea- Lbigniew Brzezinski. AI the list of invited guest pons was DIOCr

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leaders the unresolved clause Owen brings up • the issue was left on one side and successive Labour tor the kritish Social simply crats together with leaders opted ex-Labourite Evan Luaro ignore (togethe decisions of conference with which they disagree) Trilateral Commission waned somewhat with Rodgers campaign Du passing of the Carter : ad served to stiffen the core of istration in the US -whi Labour's extreme right wing in preparation for what was can pint boasted no TC members to be then recull to governi ment in 1964 George Brown, Denis Stabilise and Healey, Crosland koy Jenkins were lo be lcdume figures in the Wilson cabinet But Rodgers himself had debate the best strategie while the defence and stabiliss as a leading figure of imperialist rule with 1975 media and elsewhere. Significantly To this day Social Demo- study "ine bility Democrai and their allies Cal. continue to be laments Involved l demands" being raised it shady . anti-Communist front "democratic" coun leading to a crisis of pol Mike Thomas SUr Mr. and Neville Sandelson IOI instance, together with Dick *The Over Social and oi democratic poli system usually requires s Stephen Haseler and Douglas measure oi duduly all Eden are all members of the involvement on the par individuals so -calcu call valet Free World" groups" whose members have plainly uph wen history of involvement with such positions today 'cultural" CIA-backed launching of the SDP fronts and think tanks. to mot turning the anti-working class p Their fellow members dices of well-heeled laye include Sir James Goldsmith the middle class in their Perecine worselmorne paign to keep Labour ou Robert Moss, Paul Johnson- and the right win and EETPU leader Frank the SDP make a virtue o -napole ot sectons u Haeer's connecuons lo Labour rank and file the ultra-right are even more reactionary er five unambiguous For over prise will no doubt cont closely Ila. occl to attract the support o to the herlast Trilateralists, cold • wall Foundation the Funded

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Cops out of Brixton! Benn backs fight to defend labour movement press SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 23 April 1981 Brixton continues "under an army of occu- pation". Steps are being "to taken set the • up same apparatus as in con- centration camps." The dramatic words are not those of any extremist" but of the leader Ted Lamn Dell councu. Knight. His angry speech was the first public meeting to be held in Brixton the uprising since atallisi une ponce on Hon 11 and 12. meeting was called Young by the Labour Party Socialists and was attended by 400 people, about equal numbers of black and white drew social notice ang cross section of the people of Brixton. the meeting and its militant the expressed aulusolicie near 2Im0S- phere which theriolin has- Brixton pation provoked. Many experiences of this occupation into the meeting by DuLIOns nom was which fOO ittie Time allowed): the which Swamp 81 the 1n The WRP's legal perse- cution of Socialist Organ- iser continues. have And now others been drawn into the legal net too. The WRP intimidated the printers which SO share with Socialist Press into censoring both papers. su knew about it in time to arrange to have article,

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tacts behind the libel case later Printer sevarac insertion into SO Socialist Press found out about it only when Morning Dinters Terused print two pages (out of 10) which included a reprint of the SO editorial board state- ment of 21 March. the

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Later, got Socialist Press removed from The she ves or ouetts book- shop, Charing Cross Road (which is linked the with Party). threatening proprietors the with a writ because Press had included two SO emmers on une noel case as Brixton homes in the two belore the weeks in a week; the possible link between police and the fascists: the fact that of over the Defence arrested Committee could still only account ior the whereabout: Despite these and other accounts of the repression of Diack people, there was in the meeting, there been in the rioting a complete absence StreeTS. of racial hostility. Provocative The anger of both blacks focussed on the vast and pred vocalve pouce presence One of the most vocally demands the supported the was 1O1 Con- plete withdrawal the police from the area and the wovour o an unt Charges. Ted Knight told of the arrogant reply of the chief of police

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"returned the area to Ted Knight also reported on his unsuccessiul reques1 to Heseltine for government inserts. As a result of the threat, Coletts now say unlal lilty will only sell Socialist Press if they have a guarantee that each Issue Is cnecker libel lawyer. Such an work for a lawyer hour's costs about £60. everything oing well for the WRP. The Kul Leveller magazine reprinted allegedly

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sentences Socialist Organiser The Observer Sunday repeated the essential points and WOrLS allegedly libellous paragraph.

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them? it sec the prosecute seems More probably the wke wil care use ds mone only against the revolution- al y Meanwhile SO's drive for political ana linancial sup- momentum • widespread sup- Youth build a barricade against police attack mones eline had said: age.

want a police force answer- tnings wnich are essential u Heseltine had said: : to the elected represen- the Brixton uprising grow successfu into cabinet colleagues don't like latives or ine about move political and they ment."

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1am beth wouldn't trust you with ans And oppression rather concluding Than money"; the cabinet Knight dissipated into despair and to a question, disillusion. 'We nave me collied li l gave Salu Oul first thing is that you any money' capitalists and exploiters. We The Knight put the blame for only throw them out steps taken at once to organise a Lambeth's problems on We al t ICUlL labour movement and black "They te responsible, tionaries. Lones. The system's responsible. movement public inquiry. Workers' inquiry His answer was for a political The meeting approved resolution to that effect and and 11gOT organise Like virtually the whole mobilise the of people Knight expressed meeting but failed take Lambeth and to unk them himself in favour of a labou further steps which with moditsed people else movement inquiry into the where, especially in inner liccucu at once Second, the organisers of city areas. Tilley, the the meeting made no call for fight must also be Lambeth 1110 MP Centra demonstration organised Labour The thought that, as well, there further get rid of people Ilas. aclon should be cooperation police occupation like Roy Hattersley who had The the old, white, male judge Brixton. accepted the une Scarman "OI cancellation of the propose presence. "People like that against us". He got shouldn'i be allowed to lead in the meeting for this port Narayan and the other leaders of the Brixton that the

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Even before echoes from mich vers retoric dooul bunt anIt! from the nave alea away National Union of Journal- ists' Yet Maxwell's attack on cum erene erer toi disu erin rsalite ing month, the right to strike and the disunity right any independent UU1ll rammed down the throat of unions in his com ans wl prove tatal to NGA members bne umon s mem bers General Secretary if it succeeds. Ken The struggle Ashton, assured • against the closure Camden vullaso umo loaTNErA leader Joe Wade had asked which now encom- Journal for a declaration of passes strike action by jour intent. nalists in three centres in the and on the subietil ul tl Midlands and at two centres WUIl a lz monin perspec- tive towards fusion of the also wales two unions. squeezed of life by the NGÅ But fusion talks bureau- uis uclons lo members to crat-style, mean that you do work normally'- which they hinder their me ean

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wa11 y scabbing. with em barrassing questions about picket lines. The Save the Camden Two crucial disputes have Journal being run by brought tlat relusals or sup- suikers in oncon nas peen port from NGA officials. regular advertise- receivino Press in ments of support from the Oxford ondon Regional Council of

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after dispute, take the side saillc SOGA and trom the NGA the employers. Unity villaal wuu an peen orom- ising NUJ officials the earth but in reality both unions between general secretaries is has now declared that

NGA

have abandoned the sacked ot no benefit to members.

members are workers to their fate black journalists work. Inere can be no moves Like Olympian gods the that the towards print unity while chalmer

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now olIciasnave union could not bear the the print unions, in dispute offered to convene a meeting Pergamon strike - at the sharp end Trade union support •ranches. delence of lobs and union for Repeated rights at Pergamon. the

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week-eld attempts within ASTMS to challenge strike by NUJ members Even while the strike is Pergamon we gl e. as a on, new computerisea equip- Press, notorious anti-union ment is being installed in the Oxford, has continued to employer, to remain in the Headingtor that so far all beer Cobs or etm destroy ttl, llave coula blocked by Assistant General NGA members at The nine NUJ members Secretary Muriel Turner Pergamon. were sacked two days after But it is plain that this One of the outstanding ina kinsu or oni improved fight house aşreement! pursuit must now be steooeo demanos in tae Nu nonse improved up order isolate agreement is a clause restric- Maxwell from his influential introduction of new branches and

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cronies in the top layers of chapels have now provided NGA officials have financial the trade union and Labou support and dona- Y el bureaucracy. declared that they will give have also come Irom support the strike and

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branches Progress General Secretary Moss nave rejected appeals Lila Evans has called on Midland inem memoers shoua Dack work on the journals nor- support the Within the Labour Party, oranches mally Pergamon strike and respect the producea too, Lilt moves io Isvlale the picket lidor vicum seo strikers Maxwell making aT6 This example of union Fleet Party leader Lonuon une leaders fiddling while their Street branch of the AUEW Michael Foot declared nas sent of support, donation echoed by SOGAT. Oxtord and mennocs DuTI SuDJUIl 101 ineke and agreed to bring pressure DOna secretary Beal has tions have come from Fleet ear on Maxwell refused Street journalists Illt embarr- a t lisel And even prevent SOGAT drivers from London

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assin-ly lor Domn Maxwel another Maxwell Branch, and the Times NUJ and his supporters in the Express Litho Cowley- chapel has written a letter of Oxford City Labour Party crossing NUJ picket lines to protest to Pergamon's union- meeting of the GC activer scao suobues lo mne ownel willek Maxwel s a memoe strike-bound Headington Robert Maxwel-with -last Monday voted with office. copy to Labour Weekly. none against support the Maxwell is - scandalously Pergamor strike- Call thẹ police -allt -a member of ASTMS. But £20 strike dotale Lne And when strikers asked union fund! lasl weeK nIs own branch, the Oxford General But the the major problem for opportunity branch of ASTMS voted to address a SOGAT committee in the dispute remains the support the strike, following refusal of print union leaders meeting, Beal refused and threatened to call the police the earlier support voted b this strike vial b give official backing Publishing the Oxford and 10 viac- Oxford Health long-term the committae members! oervice mental Ine Fighting for NGA support: journalists picket gates in their last pay dispute with the employers for the NUJ and sit on the sidelines.

The which has NU. the fought closure

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and has called out tenaciy provincial in London on a series of rolling Both SOGAT and NGA officials are plainly seeking to minimise the losses among their UWIl program a olindae oro 2,500 Jobsin BEC programme •aTE prepared to sacrifice nine NUJ members and the future of the 70-strong NGA chapel al relgamon in tne nopes ol pers adin relater Maxwell that they partners in his efforts to speed up and silo uown ine brc work. force. This cynical stitch-up be exposed and fought must Ihe scabbing Delween DrInI unions must be brought to end the employers otfensive to be driver The Pergamon strike Dack. emerges as crucial in this fight We urge readers to seek every mcdls to moose con- support.-.to approach стете militants in the prin unions find ways force the NGA Into active solidarity needed and of support should be senes sent to thi strike com- mittee, c/u 5 Uniun Street. Oxford By Peter McIntyre strikes, has had no one cay choice but to . offer in the vain hope ot demonstrating thai only supporting action will win The NGA on the other nana will use the talks to The Transitional Programme in Today's Class Struggle The founding pro- grammatic document of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Available, price 80p including postage from WSL BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX Name .. Address Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX sultanesi rktss, Ihursday 23 April 1981 No end yet to recession- Claims from both employers and the government that the recession is now "flatten- ing out" should not fool workers into thinking things will get any better.

The CBI has deliberately the avolte( Using loll "bottoming out" since figures indicate is tha the rate of actual decline ha: There is still no wackened. sign of any upturn. small I rise in indus- trial production in Februar accompanied by a con wa. tinued surge of closures and and furthe hold prvosul. twist the

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arms to WaLeN accept simply a higher rate Insofar as retail sales and of redundancy pay production do begin to pick In both disputes mem- aldl seem, have bers certain that employers who ocen sacked to vicious have found it impossible to Iol slanding up managements The print raise which all hasten to Haye mankel will meetings on the whack in price rises to make Vicalsy union-busting Employment good their losses-producing Act and trumpeting a nuce icao mo muation opposition to it are in prac- increased produc. A nOl tice helping its provisions to tion does necessarily be implemented. mean increased employment industry even Selling jobs management are pursuing all-out for speed-up This attitude will bring new technology aill fallon down disaster on their own allsation designed to maxim- members. the exploitation of the Even workforce while they are refusing support the It is of course not impos NUJ's fight against Robert sible that the Maxwell Oxford, generalised capitalist" the leaders of sion print could tind room to unions are busy selling their periodic upturns. members' jobs throughout But what excluded is

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policies and objectives of the annual confer- The union as agreed by annual of the National ence conference. is This was a thinly-veiled of Teachers Union declaration war possibly one of the less left in the NUT. In likely places to find the

NUT

the a techive politics of the Commun- have shown contempt ist Party dominant. union policy throughout the last year. Recent events inside the They have refused

NUT,

notably the organise any action whatever hunt of the left in Lambeth at crucial points deanst de dusts precise wei was develop pr prevent a spearheaded by te cry ilave in the however made the role of against their own backsliding the major the Stalinists as wing that the totally central to this years Tell mounted the witch-hunt in Lambeth. conference at Eastbourne.

The first day of the con- Support ference began WiTh Morning Star an article by excuse standing others to take President Jack cambers. of standing orders And it then proceeded with Des Winters for the motion, same Chambers orches- Lilc Executive said needed officers and they have the support of the left, amidst mounting membership. In fact what they want is ine was a licence for a pogrom of the motion The motion read: 101l EXeCutIve Chambers ruled from the chair that no speaker could the determies be taken against the motion the union membership protect since orders, against one acous or dose cards had been received. contempt for the who show When this was challenged union's rules and procedures from the floor who and undermic The 442 motions on the agenda of the TGWU 29th Biennial Delegate Conference (Brighton, 22-26) provide June enough fighting policies to produce a strategy to defend the working class against the Tory govern- ment. such Unfortunately likely stidlemy unless an erective opposi- platform can be tion developed in support of the key lett wing molois. the politics LOe reflects those of delegates the by motions sent in branches, there is little sign significant political any the union development over the last vear to the lett support in the conterence.

of the Communist Party who have cosy rela- tionship with the Moss Evans General motion on ender Su Party Some important motions Lauvul the S/293 could gain wide milled ov nowever Strike for march The response is tremen- Liverpool Trades particularly from Council are calling for a unemoved city-wide strike on May getting civic receptions from 1, the day the Peoples' some Labour councils. March starts on its way Opposed to strikes to London. This class action in Liver- Until now pool that planned for the Communist farty important. Shettield. is very been It is importal dause Peter member the march itselt is gathering strikes and support

ODDUSE

they will the fear unat clear that not only antagonise the churches that march have more than 1.000 are supporting the march.

but the final participants. clear day of the march. Sunday 31 churchmen May: ot the one would like the march to be a biggest demonstrations moral protest history All over the contry su!- march organises called on the government to port committees are organis- change its polic! rather than in the towns fight for action to kick thenr and cities on the route. bers of the Croydon associ- ation who

DUT

salemicit speakers card Chambers Lambeth branch officers. had been claimed that on the 'lost' and was therefore not conierent fact it is valid! wilo When challenged for Worse to come the

HOOT

unla making about democracy in wonder to

NUT,

wOrse was order, the out of come. packlast When the suspension of union orders was put to was à clear deaders split vote-will no wielt ship-aided and near the necessary two-thirds the CP-flies clearly Chambers, how- Illa Olily. ever, ruled tne "carried" evel Amidst uproar, delegates This the shown in the immediately TOSe 101 card vote. Challenged from take •armament •Rother • Valley the floor by rejected the urgings ot a two• over me aosence Ine thirds majority, know then ruled that there would that card vote. disarmament motion was aeclarea vallice Again, and would be put on wing and the ci Monday. Out of order Deline lakel proceeded to standing He then clearly speakers rule out •i oruci seth association support.

association supporting the disciplined ILTA 8 and Of the 33 in TGWU Three policy.

TOT COSE

Plant) ago Cowley Assembly y vale branch, which calls upon the debate. • support benn election the

TOT

aeDuLy unemployment, leader This is contrary

SITDTSHZLY

to lit of present Evans PosItiol and Kitson and could prove on reducing the leadership decisive election itsell million mark vote and tell speeches of the TGWU at the Labour Party Special Confer- have pro- une ories. ence I valual. ducec a crop or moulons on sit-in strikes the d'emocratic control the block vote. * 1 from Most of them are them the right wing who suddenly Evans the bureaucratic object to use of the block vote when it ment. goes against them. the There are only But will provide Council how tions debate support for the expenditure. block votes should be demo- been sub- them (BL cratically controlled. tot tY C councils up rents or rates OUl. the In Oxford. the CP on the support committee opposed even committer par- the support Trades Council's May Day Slogause they bete Tories Tories and millwrights slogan British the policy of The Oxford organisin: committee going ocal Day of Action ton Mas work last Tuesday. 27 with a march and rall!

in since the own time drill. This came would during the day. Iney the and Stalinists The leaflets tor thes 10Un9. redundan- return cies, compulsory and volun- as would the who have tary. and calls lor to end the in defence of jobs. actions ton ivoid any Tute Dult liCk call to Kick dal dile ares the smash growing left forces - In ine

NUT

who present an alternative pole to the Exec utive's retreats on cuts and members must urging support for the rein- retaliate br laking up

HO V

of the victimised the fight for union demo- breaking the strangle hold of Rule 8. and openin claimed that the way action could not over- defence of jobs and services Play turn disciplinary committee ammulately built from must Haringey initiative in calling conference was the highest body of the a conterence on union demo union's and the fight against the policy, he ruled the speaker This must be used to ano bureau cratically moved next busi buld an alternative leader tne ship in which Can defeat the witch-hunters. This type of bureaucratic who refuse to fight the carve-up by the union leader- Social abetted by the in the scheme face of the movement to the left within the NUT at local

BACKING FOR

movement was

BENN

g on dis cillors where the NUT ot the

NUM

THE

Yorkshire Executive, and for the first have moved an amendment time came out against the to a Derbyshire conference resolution on the election of the Labour Party leadership.

however, the right Their amendment calls conspired attending the

NUM

fight to prevent anv of the amend- unhold January s ments from the left (calling Conference decision on the for affiliation to CND) from method of elections and to majority support Benn against Healey.

The NUT leadership are determined to use their control of action under for these Rule 8 and their powers to interpret the rules in order which Ing hands The genda contains its motions on free usual list policy, 16 call for ot motions controls, which for a veras and and ivo import course have the full support a prices and income through motions call of the leadership: But there not i single motion or of living clauses. women's rights, equal pay or half as many as two is it?" when the policy equal opportunities was the subject of a major motion work Diale nurseries provides the only discussion of the problems There are 35 motions on which lacca oy woner Yet for the first time the given the few, conference itself will have a mass unemployment created A big step forward and its erec when TGWU member- over previous yeal. below the conference ulelalult protest. detesates and teh wives"" throughout Several motions call for a resolu- been General Strike to bring down There are eleven This for the union to tions on this more than usual, but nol stop selling jobs and one tor the large mem- many given bership the TGWU has in the motions are alicady 14 counties. Four of them against nuclear weapons, Troops Out and of the call for calling are from the TGWU to maintain its policy those unree of unilateral nuclear disarma- Oxford area An amendment from the to the 5/293 branch refers ten resolu Sands cuts public success the Fermanagh and only three and points his votes as proot of the popular support for the anti-imperial- ist struggle in the republican community. implement the cuts of put Skilled men end strike are members retusing The 600 toolmakers learn another job, or teach the Leyland Cowley An indication of the atti.

tude of the leadership of the Body Plant voted over-

AUEW

came in the state whelmingly to return to of executive member men. reply to the Ken cure in as no surprise toolmakers claim executive "They want had assurance instruction to do so and the which no firm , could give in even Secretary Not iva Coll arecession convenor blue chip companies will give Koy Fraser, both recommended a guarantees of no redundan cles The mass meeting voted strike but insti 3XX rule The issue is demarcation and the Page 11 Nursery occupiers dig in The day, following no Parents, children and the cam- doubt to further supporters from Beal St. paign for self-help, the direc- Centre lobbied toI arranged with County Hall last Wednes- Mercury to senc Leicester parents to visit a selt-help day in their battle to nursery to see how it keep the play centre done and selected the Phoenix Nursery in Notting- ham. Then we crowded into services year ago inis socia the committee room to hea faced by a Y a! case accuse by council Social Services Committee.

closur after parents mounted brian Kuce huge campaign wett Services, presented offered the building for a that ip case £8,000 to run it themselves and warned that bea street octavick parents did not agree to this include members they would take legal action Campaign Leicester Nursery forged no nac previously two cabour coul links strong argued for it to stay ham and on as before with two quali with Oxford fied staff but this was votec worth produced down by the Tory majority "Nurseries: How and on the committee Why for Then Fight The parents who atten- which has proved invaluable ded tne meeting seem le tor the smoot runnie o unanimous in the view that the Beal St. occupation. meeting had been very instructive in now Link maintained decisions were maut Statements by the Tory underlined their as unk has Devil collel the ued through National DauosoDy much "We do mr lOO Mercury didn't quite get the people. Let them they'd expected. The do it for themselves and then

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parents/staff at the Phoenix they 11 made it clear that self help look back with pride at what temporary only they've achieved Was measure until the local elec- farce. The voting was tions in May when almos The chairman didn't know certainly a Labour majorit which was the proposal anc will be returned. The Labou amendment. The pledged councillors were nudg rally financing put thei as it was previously In fact other Nottingham councillor asked "what hav also said voted and just Call alive, they would have occupied il another walked in half way they'd had the same suppor ana was neard. i and didn't think "I've just been asleep. went sanat's happening? What day demanding enough staff. Although no summons served, it seems has yet been that the council has certain Angry already taken steps towards a court order. With the elections Parents were also ang) the director's misrepres it is difficult to say close the and whether or not they will risk of the vote the bad publicity that woul immediatey occupied surround an eviction. his omnice as question As a result, a meeting has the after arranged Easter holidays ity support into direct action Although it is unlikely to prevent an eviction support and the decision of chance vi essayes made, it does give donations occupa the parents more time before tion fund should be sent to: Beal Street Occupation Com- eviction are Dies us closer Close 1o the local elections on slay mittee. Pegasus Leicester.

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(AUEW).

Dave Hallsworth (Tameside Trades Council).

Assistant Secretary of the about this aughter dro American including teams the Berets psychopathic playing increasing y in moves to defeat the left wing guerrilla forces fightine banner under National Marti Liberation Front (FMLN). The latest US tactic is the so-called Operation Herod', creation involves the ot a tree re zone cow e entire width of the country Villages in the zone are to b ground and burned to the anyone wno resists guilie Edinburgh and Eamonn McCann reeling at the rally was strong and it was clear striker Bobby that hunger has ive campaign or political campaign for political status were severa socaKe. critical of SDLP MP John who was Hume nOV that Sands come demanding Euro- take mis CasI pean Commission for Humar Rights This was soundly rejectec call was made for the and a hunger cillors to come off all coun- cils and public bodies until strike resolved There was also a call for trade union inquiry H Blocks and Armagh the Jall down. In the towns, The leg murder squads und wing the jun continue to saunter a thousand workers and le month. wingers every be junta has Let Ult inane to cow te tessell of the masses. And more al more and social democratic leade • are now attemi n CUrODI ing to persuade the Reag interbando abandon military instead seek a political agre ment WIll ute leaders of the Democra Revolutionary • Front (FDR It is vital that the Briti working class plays its role opposing imperialist repr firmly rejecting any attemp pressurise the masses Salvador into a politi compromise off hands Salvador! *Support for revolutio struggles Central America. troughu blackir *Demand all other nea suke aid to the junta! *Down with the Dual dictatorship! *For a workers' and pe Salvadogovernment ants' trade union readers heavily criticised for th silence on the hunger stri The biggest applause Hallsworth for Dave Tameside Trades Coul speech whose work Unt sonuality lab carried

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